21.08.2008 - Soviet communism was to blame for 1968 invasion - Czech president
He recalled that tens of millions of Russians, as well as members of other nations and ethnic groups in the then Soviet Union had become victims of the communist regime.
Klaus said he considers it historically unjust to put the blame for the invasion on the Russian nation.
"It was the expansive communism that fundamentally trampled our sovereignty," Klaus said.
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Before the president's address, Jan Nemec's new documentary film recalling the August 1968 events was screened.
The armies of five Warsaw Pact countries, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, East Germany, Hungary and Poland, crossed the Czechoslovak border on the night by August 21, 1968 to crush the Communist-led reform process.
The Soviet troops' presence on Czechoslovak territory was later "legalised" by a treaty that the National Assembly (Czechoslovak parliament) approved in October 1968.
(Ceske Noviny)
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