The Berlin International Human Rights Congress (BIHRC)

"Human Rights and Democracy in a Globalized World - Moving Towards an International Consensus"

(Berlin; October 1st - 4th, 2010)

Human Rights Introduction

August 21, 1968

The Prague Spring Uprising is suppressed

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The Prague Spring uprising ferociously put down by tanks from five Warsaw Pact Powers, supported by the GDR. The illusion of “Socialism with a human face”, a phrase used by reformist leader Alexander Dubcek, disappears.