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During the night of August 20-21, 1968, Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the season of democratic reforms introduced by Alexander Dubcek. This marked the end of the Prague Spring, which had raised great hopes, notably in the West. The Russian tanks crushed the last hopes for a socialism with a human face. And as in Budapest in 1956, the Soviet Union bared its true face, that of a liberticidal and totalitarian regime, stubbornly opposed to any change. This momentous page in history is related here by Russian soldiers who were convinced, at the time, that they were "liberating" Prague by putting down the counter-revolution.

Italy - 2008 - 53 mn - Betacam Digital • 4/3 • PAL - Colour and B&W

Director Amedeo Ricucci Writer Amedeo Ricucci Sound Francesco Aruanno Editing Fabrizio Colatei

Production RAI Educational, Via Ettore Romagnoli, 30, 00137 Rome, Italie Tél : +39 06 3686 8173 Fax : +39 06 8689 9046 E-mail : p.corsini@rai.it

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