1968 Prague Spring at 50

Fifty years after the Prague Spring of 1968 one can notice an interesting contrast between the acommemoration of the hopes of the Spring in the West and the priority given to the commemoration of the August 1968 invasion which crushed the project known as ‘socialism with human face’. This may be revealing not just of different experiences with 1968 in both parts of then divided Europe as much as of the post-1989 politics of memory in the Czech lands..