26 Feb 1990: Soviet troops begin pulling out of Czechoslovakia, decades after a ‘temporary deployment’

Exactly thirty years ago, Václav Havel was in Moscow meeting with Mikhail
Gorbachev, and the pact on the total withdrawal of Soviet troops from
Czechoslovakia was signed. That very day, the first soldiers began pulling
out, as a brass band struck up the “Internationale”, while outside the
garrison gates locals bid them a less-than-fond farewell.