The Moscow Protocol
1968 · Event
Abducted to Moscow in handcuffs during the invasion, Dubček and his colleagues are worked over for four days until they sign the protocol that unwinds their own reforms — all but one of them; František Kriegel, who refuses, is nearly left behind. They return to a country whose radio they must tell, in breaking voices, that the Spring is over.
On these timelines: The Prague Spring, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Cold War, Russia & the USSR, Master
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