Soldiers - anti-aircraft machine gun - Old Town

Troops of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, to halt political liberalization in the country called the Prague Spring. Soviet anti-aircraft gun crew at the Old Town Square in Prague on the first invasion day, August 21, 1968. Ironically, the soldiers took position near the palace where an exhibition entitled Soviet Art of the Twenties was under way. CTK Photo

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Anti-aircraft Entitled Halt Invaded Ironically Liberalization Pact

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