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As preparations continue to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Czech ministry for foreign affairs has remembered the support it received from the democratic world.
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Western countries may not have prevented the tanks from rolling down Prague's Wenceslas Square on 21st August 1968, but they showed their solidarity with the fate of the Czechoslovak people in many other ways. Monika Pajerova, speaking on behalf of the ministry for foreign affairs, thanked all the people and insitutions around the world who provided moral and material aid to the Czechoslovaks and offered asylum to those who fled the country. She also expressed special thanks to those in the Soviet Union and other former Warsaw pact countries who demonstrated their opposition to the 68 invasion and in doing so risked their own freedom, jobs and even lives. Eighty-two Czechoslovaks died in the invasion while 300 were seriously injured. As a result of the invasion more than 70,000 people emigrated. Despite this high toll and despite the assurances of politicians during the Velvet Revolution of 1989, noone has yet been brought to trial for the suppression of the Prague spring. |
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