1968 The decision to send troops to Czechoslovakia

50 years ago, on August 18, 1968, a meeting of the leaders of the USSR, the GDR, Poland, Bulgaria and Hungary took place in Moscow, where it was decided to send troops of the Warsaw Pact countries to Czechoslovakia in the coming days. It was envisaged that the "healthy forces" of the HRC would appeal for military assistance.

In a message to the President of Czechoslovakia, Ludwik Svoboda, on behalf of the participants in the meeting, it was stated that a request for assistance to the Czechoslovak people by the armed forces had been received from the "majority" of the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and many members of the government of Czechoslovakia, which was a deliberate lie.