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The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and continued until 21 August when the Soviet Union and other members of the ...
The Czechoslovak Naval Forces (Československé válečné loďstvo) were the naval arm of the former Czechoslovak state.Czechoslovakia being landlocked and with no large rivers flowing through it (the Danube formed a small part of its border), its naval forces were small and consisted only of riverine craft operating on the Danube (and briefly on the upper Elbe).
The files released included documents about "Operation Danube", the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring. [2] [3] They included files on the 1970 Polish protests, and from the martial law era of the 1980s. [2] [4] [3] The Czech Republic [5] and Hungary [6] had declassified related documents in the 1990s ...
President Masaryk was a river monitor of the First Czechoslovak Republic, serving from 1932 until the dissolution of the republic in 1939.With four 66-millimetre (2.6 in) guns in two twin turrets, [1] it was that nation's most powerful warship of the 1930s and flagship of the Czechoslovakian river flotilla.
The army and its 31st Tank Division fought in Operation Danube in 1968. The 8th Tank Army was subordinated to the Carpathian Front during the operation and was moved to southern Poland. [6] After the end of the Prague Spring the 31st Tank Division remained in Czechoslovakia with the Central Group of Forces. The division's place was taken by the ...
In 1968, the division participated in Operation Danube to suppress the Prague Spring uprising. The 108th Regiment distinguished itself in the most dangerous and difficult missions, for which about two hundred of its personnel received high government awards. [citation needed] An-12 Soviet military-transport plane
With loose waves in her hair, abs on full display and swans perfectly photoshopped on top of her exposed nipples, Porizkova looks every bit the supermodel. The Czechoslovakian-born star took to ...
Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams Gabčíkovo: Aerial view. The Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Dams (more precisely Gabčíkovo–Nagymaros Waterworks, Hungarian: Bős–nagymarosi vízlépcső, Slovak: Sústava vodných diel Gabčíkovo – Nagymaros) is a large barrage project on the Danube.