Witness: Witness Archive 2015
The Prague Spring
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:09:03
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Synopsis
On 5 January 1968 Alexander Dubcek became leader of the Communist party in Czechoslovakia, heralding a short-lived period of liberalisation. Witness speaks to history professor Jan Rychlik, a teenager at the time. (Photo: Alexander Dubcek (3rd from the right), during a Labor Day parade, May 1968. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)