Materials on the Film Czechoslovakia the Year of Trials Events in Czechoslovakia in 1968

Autumn 1968. Combat exercises in one of the Soviet artillery military units near Prague. Soviet soldiers are helping the Czechoslovak peasants in the harvest, talking with local residents. Arrival in Prague of the Soviet delegation headed by General S. M. Martirosyan. A visit by the delegation to one of the Czechoslovak military units, a shipyard in Komarno, a livestock farm. Laying wreaths at the monument to Soviet soldiers at the Olshansky cemetery, at the tank number 23, erected in honor of the Soviet tankmen who liberated Prague from the Nazi invaders. Stay in Prague, the Soviet government delegation headed by AN Kosygin. The signing of the Soviet-Czechoslovak Treaty on the conditions for the temporary stay of Soviet troops on the territory of Czechoslovakia. The agreement is signed by A. N. Kosygin and O. Chernik. At the signing of the Agreement there are: A. A. Gromyko, A. A. Grechko, V. V. Kuznetsov, L. Svoboda, A. Dubchek, G. Husak, I. Smrkovsky, L. Straugal and other officials (October 16, 1968 of the year). Seeing the Soviet government delegation at the airport. Letters from Czechoslovak citizens to the Soviet embassy. Czechoslovak and foreign newspapers with materials about the events in Czechoslovakia.

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