Middle Israel: The Prague Spring at 50, a status report
Freedom’s victory was inspiring, but tyranny – cunning, brazen and techy – is back on the attack.
People stand near a Soviet-made military vehicle as they watch a documentary on the Soviet Union-led occupation by the Warsaw Pact armies to halt former Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek's Prague Spring political liberalisation reforms in then Czechoslovakia, broadcasted on a disp(photo credit: PETR JOSEK / REUTERS)ByAMOTZ ASA-ELUpdated:
