Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev16 August 1968
The Soviet leadership approves military intervention against the Prague Spring reform movement.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Soviet leadership approves military intervention against the Prague Spring reform movement.
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