A World Without Walls 2010
”An International Conference on Peacebuilding, Reconciliation and Globalization in an Interdependent World”

(Berlin; November 6th - 10th, 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.