21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

21. 8. 1968

Colonel Ctirad Doubek after his reactivation in 1990

Ing., Colonel Ctirad Doubek

* 1937

Officials of the Czechoslovak People´s Army in 1948-1989, Member of the Czechoslovak People's Army, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

As a young man

Stanislav Doubek

* 1947

Political prisoner after 1968 in Czechoslovakia, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Politician

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Bohuslav Douša, 1960s

Bohuslav Douša

* 1942

A 1948 – 1989 emigrant/refugee

5. 1. - 21. 8. 1968 - The Prague Spring, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Pavel Douša (2015)

Pavel Douša

* 1948

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

A photo of that time

Věra Doušová

* 1947

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Volhynian Czechs

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1. 1. 1977 - Declaration of Chart 77, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Richard Drábek during his military service at the Auxiliary Technical Batallions, 1953

Richard Drábek

* 1929

Political prisoner in the 1950‘s (ČSR), Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp

15. 3. 1939 - The Nazi occupation of ČSR, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII, 23. 2. 1949 – Beginning the forced agricultural collectivisation, 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops

Kamil Drabina, around 1959

Ing. Kamil Drabina

* 1946 †︎ 2020

Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, Art and censorship

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 4. 1969 – A. Dubček’s resignation, start of the “normalisation” period, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia

Jarmila Drachová, 2019

Jarmila Drachová

* 1934

Witnesses of local events connected to WWII

14. 2. 1945 - Bombing of Prague , 21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 1944 - 1945 - The liberation of Czechoslovakia, 31. 12. 1992 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and 1 more anniversaries

In Mariánské Lázně, 1947

Jana Drahokoupilová

* 1938

Journalist, New citizen of Sudetenland after 1945, Witnesses of local events connected to WWII, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 8. 5. 1945 - End of WWII

Jiří Drahoňovský (2nd from right) with friends in the Luzicke Mountains, 1980s.

Jiří Drahoňovský

* 1954

Sokol, Svědci lokálních událostí z éry komunismu, The underground, Victim of persecution due the forced agricultural collectivisation

21. 8. 1968 - Invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops, 17. 11. - 29. 12. 1989 - The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, 29. 6. 1989 – Zveřejnění manifestu Několik vět

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