General News - 1st prize
Hilmar Pabel
Stern / Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Stern / Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
21 August, 1968
Woman with a photograph of Alexander Dubcek and Ludvik Svoboda, after troops of the Warsaw Pact have entered Prague to put an end to the Prague Spring. The Soviet Union feared that Prime Minister Alexander Dubcek's democratic reforms threatened the balance of power in Eastern Europe. Dozens of people were killed and several Czechoslovakian leaders were arrested.