21, 1968 (UPI) - Soviet officials, speaking through the news agency Tass, today explained why Russia and other Warsaw Pact powers had occupied Czechoslovakia.Tass said Communist Party and ...

The photo of 19-year-old Ivana is appropriate for 1968, when Soviet tanks roared into Czechoslovakia overnight, I thought. I wondered when it had been taken. "Oh it's nothing to do with the ...

With Soviet and Czechoslovak flags, inscriptions in Cyrillic, cosmonauts, and a portrait of Pushkin, Prague's Anděl metro station  is a trove of historical curiosities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong. Speaking at a forum in eastern Russia, he said it is not right to do anything in foreign ...