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Silence in Wenceslas Square shows Prague unsettled after invasion
In Prague’s Wenceslas Square crowds press through a sunlit day, but voices fade amid scars from the 1968 Soviet invasion. Exiles and locals face a frozen optimism as Dubcek era memories mix with Husak era caution. Emigration rises with visas easy at Prague embassies, while labor mood sags and anti-Soviet graffiti appears.
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Prague
Wenceslas Square
Republic
Bohemia and Moravia
Lee Peer
St. Wenceslas
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
National Museum
West
Dubcek
Gustav Husak
Ludvik
Svoboda
Husak
Vysehrad