On the night of 20–21 August 1968, the Soviet Union and its main allies in the Warsaw Pact—Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, and Poland—invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in order to halt Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring political liberalisation reforms.In the operation, codenamed Danube, approximately 500,000 troops, with Romania and Albania refusing to participate, attacked Czechoslovakia.
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| - On the night of 20–21 August 1968, the Soviet Union and its main allies in the Warsaw Pact—Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, and Poland—invaded the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in order to halt Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring political liberalisation reforms.In the operation, codenamed Danube, approximately 500,000 troops, with Romania and Albania refusing to participate, attacked Czechoslovakia.
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| - Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
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| - 2 killed
- 10 killed (in accidents and suicides)
- 4 killed (in accidents)
- 96 killed (84 in accidents),
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| - Albania
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Poland
- Romania
- Soviet Union
- Supported by:
- Czechoslovakia
- Yugoslavia
- Warsaw Pact:
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| - *Moscow Protocol
- Warsaw Pact victory
- * Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia until 1991
- * Withdrawal ofAlbaniafrom the Warsaw Pact in September 1968
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| - (with general mobilization about 2,500,000)
- 2,000 cannons
- 2,500–3,000 tanks (numbers classified)
- 200,000 / 600,000 = 30 divisions in 2–3 days
- 500,000 (27 divisions)
- 6,300 tanks,
- 800 airplanes,
- more than 250 airplanes
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