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Retrospective 2023
Filmstill Soviet Troops in Prague and Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)
Soviet Troops in Prague and Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)
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A curious look at the socialist reform experiment in Prague, with sceptical undertones: Will everything end like it did in Hungary in 1956? Soviet tanks are already being deployed along the border of the ČSSR.
Filmstill Soviet Troops in Prague and Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)

Soviet Troops in Prague and Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)

Sowjetische Truppen in Prag und Budapest (Panorama, 29.7.1968)
anonymous
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
FRG
1968
15 minutes
German
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Prague in July 1968. The West German television magazine Panorama reports on the situation in the ČSSR, drawing parallels to the developments in Budapest in 1956. Curious and sceptical at the same time, the feature explores the possibilities of an independent reform movement, but also soberly concludes that the Soviet Union will not tolerate this. The tanks are already waiting at the border.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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