Misleading

Czech Foreign Minister Lyubomir Zasorelek called Russia's ambassador to Prague Sergei Kiselev to explain about the television film about the invasion of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia in 1968. The authors of the film "Warsaw Treaty. Declassified pages" are trying "to rewrite history and falsify historical truth," quotes the Associated Press statement by the Czech Foreign Ministry.

The film , shown on May 23 on Russia-1, claims that the invasion was an act of Czechoslovakia’s assistance in order to prevent a military coup there, behind which the Western countries stood. According to Czech diplomats, this misleads the audience and is not confirmed by historians.

The Med of Slovakia also made a statement about the Russian film. In Bratislava, they are “unpleasantly surprised” by the distortion of historical facts and the use of “old ideological stamps”, from which Moscow has long been officially dissolved and apologized for the invasion and occupation.

Last fall, Pavel Litvinov and Viktor Finberg, participants in the "Demonstration of Seven", boycotted the posthumous award ceremony of the poet and human rights activist Natalia Gorbanevskaya in Prague. They stated that "President Milos Zeman's speeches, regarding Putin's poorly disguised aggression against the Ukrainian republic, are incompatible with the slogan" for your and our freedom ", which Natasha brought to Red Square on August 25, 1968."

On October 28, on the Independence Day of the Czech Republic, Zeman posthumously awarded the Gorbanev Order of Tomash Harriga Masarik. Since 1990, this award has been presented for an outstanding contribution to the development of democracy, humanity and human rights. The ceremony was attended by the sons of Gorbanevskaya. Yaroslav Gorbanevsky in a number of public speaking also sharply criticized Zeman's position in the Ukrainian crisis.

In August 2013, on Red Square, the police dispersed the action to the 45th anniversary of the "Demonstration of Seven". The Czech Republic then thenexpressed the hope that "the Russian side is aware of the symbolic value of the dispersal of such a memorial action."