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EPISODE · Sep 30, 2023 · 21 MIN

Episode 67: Cold War Era-Eastern Europe Uprisings

from The Y in History · host Ajay Kaul

The East German uprising of 1953 began as a series of strikes and protests at living standards; it soon turned political, with town halls being stormed amid vocal demands for German reunification. The Soviets had to intervene with military force to quell the rebellion. On August 20, 1968, the Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague, thereby ending the Prague Spring which had started in January of 1968.

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