Ukraine 2022: Flashback to Crimea 1993? Prague Spring 1968?
Posted: 24th February 2022
By Dan Drollette Jr | February 23, 2022
August 21, 1968, in Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czechoslovakia, when Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces invaded, ending the progressive era known as the Prague Spring. Photograph by Vladimir Lammer/Courtesy Czech Center of New York
Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian troops to separatist areas of Eastern Ukraine as euphemistic “peacekeepers,” with somewhere between 150,000 and 190,000 Russian troops ranged along the Russia-Ukraine and Belarus-Ukraine borders. The United States and its European allies have announced significant economic sanctions on Russian financial entities in attempts to forestall further invasion. The world waits to see whether Russia will embark on the first major military attack in Europe in decades.