Postcard with signatures of the participants of the summit in Cierna nad Tisou in 31 July 1968. Soviet and Czechoslovak leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexander Dubcek met in Cierna nad Tisou, now in Slovakia. This meeting was followed by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on 21 August 1968. Signatures of Alexander Dubcek, Leonid Brezhnev , Mikhail Suslov, Alexei Kosygin, Andrei Gromyko and Soviet ambassador to Czechoslovakia Stepan Chervonenko are readable. Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Milos Jakes shows the postcard from his personal archive


Postcard with signatures of the participants of the summit in Cierna nad Tisou in 31 July 1968. Soviet and Czechoslovak leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Alexander Dubcek met in Cierna nad Tisou, now in Slovakia. This meeting was followed by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on 21 August 1968. Signatures of Alexander Dubcek, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Suslov, Alexei Kosygin, Andrei Gromyko and Soviet ambassador to Czechoslovakia Stepan Chervonenko are readable. Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia Milos Jakes shows the postcard from his personal archive at his apartment in Prague, Czech Republic, on November 22, 2016.


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