Thread by @AlexAlvarova

This is a less known story of how the Soviets attacked Czechoslovakia in 1968. The real trigger wasn’t the fact that reform communists wanted to change the rules of how the ineffective soviet economy worked in the Czech (previously highly industrial and developed) environment./

No, sir. The real trigger for military action came in the moment when Czechoslovak army started to prepare plans for doctrinal changes. That was a language the Soviets understood too well. They in fact never gave a shit about ideology. If they could colonize the planet under/

the flag of some New Age flying agaric mushroom shit, they would have gladly do it. Whatever works, folks. Only brute force matters. And so they sent the tanks and troops and killed hundreds including moms with strollers./

Czechoslovak army hoped the West HAS TO act. But nope. No one gave a shit. Mainly thanks to Henry Kissinger, may he be forgotten for what he has done. And then, after became all too clear that not even a blade of grass will be moved, Czechoslovak army allegedly considered to/

invade Germany, neighbour state behind the iron curtain. That would make the conflict global and change the cards. Unfortunately for Czechoslovakia and fortunately for the lovely quiet live of western population, this “out of the box plan” never happened.
Just saying.

I wrote this post to make clear the level of desperacy of nations who were sold to Stalin during the Yalta conference and had to spend 60 years in one large concentration camp called Eastern Europe.
#Neveragain #NeverForget