When desperate Czechs wrote "Go home, Ivan!" in white paint on their houses after the August invasion. they had no idea that the Ivans would settle here, start families, and leave after twenty-three long years. As late as the beginning of 1990, there were still over 73,000 Soviet soldiers and thousands of their family members on the territory of Czechoslovakia. There were also 1220 tanks, 2505 combat vehicles and armoured personnel carriers, 1218 guns and mortars, 76 combat aircraft and 146 combat helicopters. The last transport left the territory of the Republic thirty years ago, on 21 June 1991. Michael Kocáb, head of the then parliamentary commission, and historian Prokop Tomek will talk about the significance, circumstances and context of the departure of Soviet troops with Jan Kalous, director of the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century. The debate will be broadcast on the Havel Channel and the Facebook page of the Museum of the Memory of the Twentieth Century on 24 June 2021 at 7 pm. The discussion is part of a series of joint evenings of the Václav Havel Library and the Museum of the Memory of the 20th Century.
Debate 30 years since the departure of Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia (online 24 June 2021)
