Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2020
Abstract
Based on material gathered by Czech historians and personal testimonies given by eyewitnesses during oral history interviews recorded by the author himself, this article focuses on the significantly different interpretations of the Soviet military presence in Czechoslovakia after August 1968, as they appear in Czech or (post) Soviet sources. Defining this event either as an "occupation", or avoiding, and even refusing to use this term, remains a fundamental dividing line.
The author attempts to understand the interpretation of these events as evidence of the differences in the wider meaning Czechs and Russians give to their own recent history.