Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Soviet_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia

GPTKB entity

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:historical_event gptkb:military
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:casualties	hundreds wounded 137 Czechoslovak civilians killed
gptkbp:commanded	gptkb:Vasily_Margelov gptkb:Ivan_Yakubovsky gptkb:Martin_Dzúr gptkb:Wojciech_Jaruzelski
gptkbp:condemnedBy	gptkb:United_Nations Western countries
gptkbp:date	1968-08-20 1968-08-21
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Normalization_(Czechoslovakia)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:legacy	increased emigration from Czechoslovakia long-term distrust of Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	gptkb:Jan_Palach_self-immolation
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Leonid_Brezhnev gptkb:Ludvík_Svoboda gptkb:Gustáv_Husák gptkb:Alexander_Dubček
gptkbp:numberOfTroops	approximately 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops over 2,000 tanks
gptkbp:opposedBy	gptkb:Albania gptkb:Czechoslovakia gptkb:Romania gptkb:Yugoslavia
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:perpetrator	gptkb:Bulgaria gptkb:East_Germany gptkb:Hungary gptkb:Poland gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkbp:precededBy	gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:purpose	to halt liberal reforms of Prague Spring
gptkbp:relatedEvent	gptkb:Berlin_Wall gptkb:Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956 gptkb:Solidarity_movement gptkb:Velvet_Revolution
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Warsaw_Pact gptkb:Brezhnev_Doctrine
gptkbp:result	gptkb:Suppression_of_Prague_Spring restoration of hardline Communist rule
gptkbp:significance	demonstrated limits of reform in Eastern Bloc major event of the Cold War
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Brezhnev_Doctrine gptkb:Soviet_Bloc gptkb:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5