Jižní kříž

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… nevšiml. To začalo roku 1966 a my jsme tam do toho roku 1968 žili jako oddíl vlčat, a jakmile byl roku 1968 povolen skauting, tak ten oddíl se přejmenoval na Jižní …

Dad believed in socialism with a human face

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… the party was to work like this, as they promised in spring 1968, he would have perhaps even very well joined them. But …

"Disagreement" with the entry of the armies

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… “It was 1970, and unlike in 1968-69, the normalization was already pressing heavily on … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

After the occupation, he did not flee and continued to work in the trade unions

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… "The times have turned. On the eve of 21 August 1968, at around 11 o'clock at night, GDR troops arrived here … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

Burning barricades against the occupiers were built on the border near Náchod

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… that in Nové Město, when the fraternal armies invaded in 1968, that no one had broken through the barricades that … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

In Martin with President Ludvík Svoboda shortly before the annexion by the Warsaw Pact armies

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… it’s some sort of mystery.’ Back, then, in June and July of 1968, there was large Warsav Pact armies exercise going on. … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

Professor Otakar Vávra - Where the wind is, there’s his cape

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… for almost a year. So, to the West. Then I returned in 1968, I wanted to extend it there, but I had to have a … Vávra was very welcoming and nice to me, it was still June 1968. He said that my theoretical diploma was excellent and … late 1960s. At first it was a bit loose here, at the end of 1968 it got tough and then Dubček came on again and the …

Early years as a surgeon in Brno and memories of Professor Jan Navrátil

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… job with the Second Surgical Clinic, and was lucky; it was 1968. There had been a thaw in ’67 already, and I won the … of us and I was lucky; I won and was hired on 1 January 1968. It was the clinic that Professor Navrátil had helmed, … but he was no longer there. He left for Vienna on 1 January 1968. It was like a twist of fate… Do you believe in fate? I …

When the Russians were passing through Horní Bečva in 1968, we threw away their leaflets

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… When the Russians were passing through Horní Bečva in 1968, we threw away their leaflets … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …

Debate with soldiers on 24 August 1968 resulted in a shooting, a bullet "grazed" the skin on his hand

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… Debate with soldiers on 24 August 1968 resulted in a shooting, a bullet "grazed" the skin on … 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops …