IN PICTURES: 1968 Soviet Invasion in Brno

IN PICTURES: 1968 Soviet Invasion in Brno
The first Soviet tank in front of the Central railway station in Brno. This time unwelcomed and with no flowers handing over to the Soviet soldiers like during the liberation in 1945.
A face to face encounter. A powerless human being facing the heavy machinery.
Soviet troops on an army truck. Photographer Miloš Gregor says: "They looked exactly as I had remembered them from school text books and films about 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia except that they were smaller than I thought."
The army truck full of Soviet soldiers was probably stolen from the Czechoslovak army.
Foto: Miloš Gregor
20. 8. 2008 13:26

Images of Russian tanks invading Prague during the 1968 Soviet intervention are notoriously known now.

But how did the invasion look like in other parts of Czechoslovakia?

As the Red Army was occupying South Moravia's capital Brno, a 21-year old student Miloš Gregor happened to be on a tram on his way to work.

"I was a student at the College of Applied Arts back then and in August I worked in Brno's fairs at a photography department as a trainee," Gregor remembers.

He arrived to work as planned, but only to get his camera. Gregor then took to the streets of Brno to document what was happening around him. "I didn't feel like a hero, though," he says now. Ironically, he saw the first Red Army soldiers on the Red Army Square, now called the Moravian Square.

 

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