As this year is the 55th anniversary of the Prague Spring, here is a Cold War Channel look at the events of 1968, up to the Soviet decision to invade and forcibly put down the movement which looked to implement Socialism with a Human Face #PragueSpring

https://youtu.be/3BsKa67TGM0

My latest, an interview with author @LMillerLachmann@twitter.com and her spectacular new book, Torch #humanrights #CzechRepublic #praguespring #protest #ya #yafiction #vcfawcya #amwriting #freedom https://robinkirk.substack.com/p/bravery-means-standing-up-despite

This allegorical tale of Czechoslovakia, post Prague Spring and following Warsaw Pact invasion, is all colors, beautiful decay, New Wave, Falstaff, concentration camp references, bizarre love triangle a la Jules et Jim, gaggle of children and...birds. There is definitely method in all the chaos. Birds, Ophans and Fools is a maddeningly intoxicating cinematic experience. #JurajJakubisko #czechoslovakia #praguespring #warsawpact

Started to watch Simon Schama's #HistoryOfNow. Schama is pretty much hit and/or miss to me, but this one comes recommended.

First episode has Kremlin deceptions and fascist brutality from #SpanishCivilWar to #PragueSpring to Putin's Russia (of course with the current invasion of Ukraine as a backdrop).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d5wbqj

#GeorgeOrwell #BorisPasternak #VaclavHavel #PussyRiot

#PragueSpring

Josef Koudelka fotografierte 1968 in Prag die Besetzung durch die Sowjetunion.
In dem Fotobildband Invasion Prag 68 entdeckte ich ein Foto der Schaufensterauslage eines Buchladens.
Neben Büchern über František Kupka und Paul Cézanne findet sich die zweibändige Ausgabe von Frantisek Muzika: Krásné Písmo Prag, 1963. Diese Ausgabe kaufte sich mein Vater in den 1960ern in Berlin (Ost). Sie steht neben Koudelka in meinem Bücherregal.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Zq_V4HaJNgI