The end of the Prague Spring | History Stories

[@margin606]

It's good to be reminded that freedom is not a given and cannot be taken for granted. Thank you for this video summary.

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

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[@berndhoffmann7703]

It is sooooo unbelievable, that has happened years before I was born and history now repeats itself with Ukraine, There is one aggressor just ignore the whole country. We will manage without them! I know a handful of decent Russians who should not suffer, managed to move to Europe and start a new life they need pour support (especially as the EU is discussing to thwart VISAS), but Oligarchs who wants to spend a splendid LIFE IN Europe shoulöd be excluded!

[@machinegewehrUIA]

many Russians simply go on vacation, many in Europe do not accept local customs, they create their own local “Russian world". those who celebrate the holiday on May 9, all sorts of communists and the like. In addition, in Germany there was one blonde who, against the background of the actions of Ukrainian refugees, danced with the Russian flag to the song “Kalinka”, and also pestered two girls with the words “Whose Kherson?”, as well as “Russia will win, Russia will win”. no more than half of Russians actually do not support the war for one reason or another, half of them are simply disappointed with the result. And about 80% of Russians support all sorts of narratives about Ukraine, as if it never existed, Ukrainians are an imaginary people, the Ukrainian language does not exist either. This has many versions, either the Ukrainian language is a dialect of Russian, or it was created by the Austrian General Staff. we need to know the history in more detail, for example, the Emsky Decree, all sorts of deportations and the like, the Russian people are to blame for everything, and not just their government, in the abstract sense, not specifically each person, but let’s say, the essence of “Russian”

[@ДмитрийСадков-с4о]

@@machinegewehrUIA Для отсталых, у которых в словаре кроме Russian ничего нет ты вряд ли что-то объяснишь)) Бросай использовать сей скудный колониальный язык.

[@yeboxxx_channel_2505]

@@ДмитрийСадков-с4о Если вы думаете, что можете назвать английский колониальным языком. Поэтому я назову русский язык колониальным языком, потому что во времена Чехословакии его буквально поддерживали и обязали изучать в школах.

[@viktornovomestsky3999]

And that's why we are supporting Ukraine as much as we can these days, militarily, financially, taking in 410.000 refugees and so on.. As it will be 54 years next month since the invasion, but the Russians did not change a bit... Slava Ukraini !

[@КочкоровУмар]

"Glory to Bandera! Remember Volyn!"?

[@Pidalin]

@@КочкоровУмар we know nothing about some Bandera, but I guess it must be someone very important when Russians constantly speak about him 😀

[@yeboxxx_channel_2505]

​@@КочкоровУмар Noone cares for History of Bandera. To us, we don't need to care, He wasn't influence into anywhere but Ukraine. To Ukrainians, they can go ahead and depict him anyway all they want! You as a person didn't live during Bandera, have NO place to talk about Bandera if refusing to do research and using it as an insult to West for supporting Ukraine. Which, btw, isn't being controlled by Bandera.

[@Haroonlacag]

God bless 🇷🇺

[@matttondr9282]

Russia didn't become as large as it is by playing nice.

[@TomeveX]

4:10 little correction:Soviet Union,Bulgaria,poland,Hungary AND THE GDR the only countries that havent invaded us were romania and albania (Btw otherwise great documentary DW its important to learn that freedom has a cost)

[@FAL87]

The GDR didnt crossed the border ;) They werent allowed because of the delicate history

[@MrSonofsonof]

@@FAL87They did. I have talked to at least two eyewitnesses who saw East German troops. They didn't stay long, but they were definitely in Karlovy Vary.

[@FAL87]

@@MrSonofsonof My Father had is Military Service at the Time and he and his company was ordered to the border, but never crossed. Marschall Andrei Gretschko who was the soviet general that had command, didnt allowed german troops to cross. Maybe they thought they saw german uniforms. who knows.

[@Servetnyk]

What if putin since 2022 is trying to repeat "The Prague Spring" in Ukraine?

[@marcpennington8455]

If socialism means everyone shares all of the resources, doesn’t that make “democratic” socialism a misnomer and oxymoron? You can’t vote your way out of it and say, “Nah, I don’t want to be part of y’all’s socialism”. It’s compulsory, mandatory. You don’t get to vote on that which means you don’t get a vote on anything.

[@emiliobello2538]

Very interesting

[@SweWince]

Amazing that the Czechs spoke fluent german

[@yx3900]

The appeasement policy with authoritarian and totalitarian regimes has been a wrong path throughout contemporary history. Comprehensive support for freedom seekers and fighters, whether through soft or hard power, must be on the agenda.

[@kxtreme1942]

And after that, we buy gas from Russia.

[@tng2057]

At least the freedom living spirit of the Czechs and Slovaks live on eternally, unlike a country which suffered similar fate in 1956 whose government is now embracing the tyrants.

[@cdgncgn]

Arisator Zsorozs son of devil, collaborator is not somebody good. US installed totalitrian regime Freedom fries in places you know nothing about.

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

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[@tng2057]

@@DWHistoryandCulture If you don’t mind me saying, you are ridiculous. We have a shameless warmonger and his fans in Europe and you still expect people to show them respect? No wonder you have your totally discredited Ostpolitik which served nothing but strengthening this war monger.

[@matiasd5216]

Is it true that demonstrators in Praha/Prague took out all street signs except those indicating the way to Moskva??

[@Justabrodor]

Yes, yes they did

[@Justabrodor]

Yes, yes they did

[@matiasd5216]

@@Justabrodor I once read about it, but I never found any picture or report on the subject.

[@cska1945]

I am a communist myself,A titoist one (pro yugoslavia) im so glad that Tito condemned invasion of czechoslovakia

[@КочкоровУмар]

Ceausescu also condemned the invasion. Oddly enough, he was later shot.

[@Julieterres]

@@КочкоровУмар I was intrigued by that, too. I have always learnt that Ceausescu and Tito were tyrants. Here I see the first was actually condemning Moscow and I have heard from Serbian friends that Tito was actually more praised than people are led to believe. What's the deal here? I am genuinely curious.

[@КочкоровУмар]

​@@Julieterres Tito did not carry out mass repressions like Stalin did. He led the partisans against the German army, and Yugoslavia prospered under him.

[@serebii666]

Tito had to condemn the invasion, because Czechoslovakia's reforms, the new brand of Socialism they were attempting, and the Soviet response of invasion to restore a hardline socialism along Moscow's preferences, were correctly evaluated by Tito and Yugoslavia as a provocation and direct threat to Yugoslavia's own unique brand of Socialism. Tito met with Brezhnev multiple times prior to the Invasion were he expressed plainly that Yugoslavia would not support Moscow's "restoration of Order", however it would also not materially oppose it, instead ending their meeting on the point that "Czechoslovak internal politics should be dealt with by the Czechoslovak party". The collapse of the Prague Spring had direct consequences for Yugoslavia, causing internal propaganda campaigns and silencing of intra-party dissent for fears of similar developments taking place there (namely the fear that a radical section of the Yugoslav Socialist party would invite Moscow to invade under the same circumstances). This led to repressions throughout the 1970s, an inability to reform as critique of the current system was considered anti-party and anti-Yugoslav. This had direct consequences on the eventual breakup of Yugoslavia.

[@serebii666]

@@КочкоровУмар Yugoslavia unfortunately had many problems, ones that Tito was responsible for as well. By the 1960s it was evident that the economy was doing very poorly, logistics and production chains were very inelastic, they did not correspond to demand and there were multiple supply bottlenecks, with poor industrial distribution throughout the country, and salaries were not set to actual productivity, this led to lots of consumer goods shortages, and FOREX depletion, not to mention poor cooperation between the Federal Republics. Tito welcomed Czechoslovakia's reforms, since it would strengthen his Yugoslavia's prestige on the international stage as another alternate model of Socialism to the USSR's, one closer to his own. Unfortunately, the invasion had similar consequences for Yugoslavia - Tito ordered repressions and propaganda campaigns to silence internal party dissent for fear that some radical section of the party would make a similar appeal to the Soviet Union and invite an Invasion of Yugoslavia as well. This made any further economic and political reforms through the 1970s and 1980s difficult or impossible, and was a contributing factor to Yugoslavia's breakup. The absolute lack of NATO and even UN response made Yugoslavia very uneasy as it viewed the West as giving up on maintaining the balance of power in Europe, one in which Yugoslavia was the crossroads of.

[@ВикторияЛесневская-щ6д]

Нет тоталитаризму, свободу Навальному,

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[@cdgncgn]

navaľny nacist, satanist.

[@strikerkillersk2]

Those signs they were holding up supporting Czechs only makes me glad were no longer a country

[@sulista-consulting]

In Czechia and Slovakia or in the Czech republic and the Slovak Republic....

[@samyacoub4858]

Czechoslovakia

[@sulista-consulting]

You should say according to the Czech Republic logic The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic@@samyacoub4858 what I like to point out, that it's nonsense to use a short name for one country and the formal one for the other.

[@Aronimous]

@@samyacoub4858 but now it's Czech Republic and Slovakia, both of them had a ''Velvet Divorce'' in 1990.

[@MrJonas7]

@@Aronimous There was no divorce in 1990...

[@ВадимМудров-з5м]

Попробовал бы кто-то провести революцию в Бельгии, Голландии или Франции в то время. Хотя там тоже было сильное коммунистическое движение. Вы бы орали по всем углам и требовали помощи. И Штаты сразу бы выслали свои войска туда. Абсолютно лживый репортаж. Стоп НАТО, стоп сионфашист контроль.

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[@what-hn1od]

@@DWHistoryandCulture Translation: Would someone try to carry out a revolution in Belgium, Holland or France at that time. Although there was also a strong communist movement there. You would be screaming in all corners and demanding help. And the United States would immediately send its troops there. Absolutely false report. Stop NATO, stop Zion-fascist control. *** Just another russian moron justifying invasion

[@yeboxxx_channel_2505]

I Demand you to kindly stop spreading such nonsense and understand the situation at hand. That neither NATO or Russia are in Pure light. If you wanna condemn Politics, go ahead and condemn everyone but don't be a hypocrite.

[@wegder]

If only Ukraine had obeyed their Master.

[@ВикторияЛесневская-щ6д]

Нет тоталитаризму, свободу Навальному,