Russian 'Documentary' Rewrites History of 1968 'Prague Spring'

One of the strongest uprisings against communism during the Cold War was recently rewritten by a state-run television network in Russia - and in its version, the villain of the storied "Prague Spring" of 1968 is NATO. In the more than two months since this curious "documentary" was first aired and then reported in numerous international outlets such as The Financial Times, the governments of both the Czech Republic and Slovakia - the results of the 1993 breakup of Czechoslovakia - have heatedly denounced the film "Warsaw Pact: Pages Declassified."

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Tuesday, August 4, 2015