Photo Stories - 1st prize
Hilmar Pabel
Stern / Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
Stern / Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz
21 August, 1968
Troops of the Warsaw Pact enter 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.