Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkb:military_operation
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:armedWith approximately 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops
over 2,000 tanks
gptkbp:casualties hundreds wounded
137 Czechoslovak civilians killed
gptkbp:commanded gptkb:Wojciech_Jaruzelski
gptkb:Vasily_Margelov
gptkb:Martin_Dzúr
gptkb:Ivan_Yakubovsky
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:Alexander_Dubček
gptkb:Gustáv_Husák
gptkb:Ludvík_Svoboda
gptkbp:opponent gptkb:Czechoslovakia
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Romania
gptkb:Yugoslavia
gptkb:Albania
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:perpetrator gptkb:Bulgaria
gptkb:Hungary
gptkb:Poland
gptkb:Soviet_Union
gptkb:East_Germany
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Prague_Spring
gptkbp:purpose to halt liberal reforms of Prague Spring
gptkbp:regulatedBy gptkb:United_Nations
Western countries
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Berlin_Wall
gptkb:Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956
gptkb:Solidarity_movement
gptkb:Velvet_Revolution
gptkbp:relatedModel gptkb:Brezhnev_Doctrine
gptkb:Warsaw_Pact
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:The_Unbearable_Lightness_of_Being
gptkb:Brezhnev_Doctrine
gptkb:Soviet_Bloc
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5