How the 1968 invasion felt in rural Slovakia

The sounds of the wind in the trees and birds singing was replaced by the clamour of tank tracks and foreign soldiers on the morning of August 21, 1968. And while the world is familiar with the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia sending the streets of Prague and Bratislava into a panic, what was the reaction of rural Slovaks in their villages? Radio Slovakia International spoke to three individuals from Valaská Belá in in north-eastern Slovakia to hear their stories.

Warsaw Pact invasion in rural Slovakia Máte problém s prehrávaním? Nahláste nám chybu v prehrávači.