Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:06:32 +0200August 1969: When a brutal crackdown on protests resulted in killings and a “baton law”https://english.radio.cz/august-1969-when-a-brutal-crackdown-protests-resulted-killings-and-a-baton-law-8122871© 2026 Radio Prague International Exactly a year after the Prague Spring was crushed by a Warsaw Pact invasion, many thousands of Czechoslovaks went into the streets once more to protest their country’s occupation. The subsequent brutal crackdown on demonstrators, this time by their own countrymen, resulted in hundreds of arrests and even five deaths. It crushed the last vestiges of hope and persuaded the public that “normalisation” was here to stay. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/srpen1969_3.jpg?timestamp=1724316968 August 1969: When a brutal crackdown on protests resulted in killings and a “baton law” https://english.radio.cz/august-1969-when-a-brutal-crackdown-protests-resulted-killings-and-a-baton-law-8122871 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9