Czechoslovakia the Year of Trials

Rallies, meetings; speeches of opposition representatives calling for the dissolution of the Communist Party, for a change in the political and economic development of Czechoslovakia. Speakers: I. Smorkovsky, P. Kogut, A. Lim, J. Prokhazka, L. Vesely, O. Shik and others. Meeting of the leaders of the Communist Parties of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in Cierna nad Tisou. Present: Leonid I. Brezhnev, A. N. Kosygin, M. A. Suslov, N. V. Podgorny, A. Dubchek, Chernik. Meeting of representatives of the countries participating in the Warsaw Pact: Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, USSR, Czechoslovakia in Bratislava. The Bratislava Declaration is signed by: T. Zhivkov, J. Kadar, V. Ulbricht, V. Gomulka, L. I. Brezhnev, A. N. Kosygin, A. Dubchek. Allied tanks on the Wenceslas Square in Prague. Anti-Soviet demonstrations in Prague, London, Germany. Ceremonial meeting in honor of the Republic Day; President L. Svoboda is speaking. A ceremonial meeting in the city of Prague dedicated to the 99th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin; L. Strougal speaks; present: L. Svoboda, G. Husak. Newsreel of the 2nd World War: the liberation of Czechoslovakia from the fascist invaders by the Soviet Army.

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Sound E. Umansky, script A. Koloshin, I. Medvedev