August 68. The Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the United Nations Reaction
August 68. The Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the United Nations Reaction

Summary/Abstract: The story of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 can be seen from multiple perspectives, eventually from different points of view. There are quite a lot of other divisions and subgroups according to the primary division of this issue into the external and internal level. In this paper I am going to focus on the position and attitude of the United Nations towards the invasion of armed forces of five Warsaw Pact countries into Czechoslovakia. For almost twenty years Czechoslovakia had represented the model of exemplary satellite of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the reviving process in the society the primary goal of which was an effort to initiate new, more independent and more autonomous conditions in the society, faced the opposition from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Subsequently, this opposition led to the brutal armed attack at night from August 20 to 21, 1968

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