On August 25, 1968, four days after hundreds of thousands of Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops poured into Czechoslovakia to crush the reforms of the Prague Spring, eight Soviet citizens went into Moscow’s Red Square.
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They held up banners denouncing the invasion and apologizing to the people of Czechoslovakia. Within a few minutes, several KGB enforcers rushed over, tore down the banners and a small Czechoslovak flag, and beat the demonstrators. Their story is here:http://j.mp/2MsuOpn
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This show of moral defiance came at great cost to the protesters. Only two of the protesters are alive today. On Monday, we will be joined by one of them, Pavel Litvinov, to discuss his story and protests movements in Russia. http://j.mp/2MV3Vzy @CWIHP @crkraus
