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Detention of Czechoslovak Reform Leaders

Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1968Date range
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Chronological records

1968

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev20 August 1968

Government / Government of Russia

Soviet forces detain Alexander Dubcek and other Czechoslovak reform leaders during the Warsaw Pact intervention.

Names involved

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev

Provenance

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