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1968
News film, presumably of the Prague Spring, January-August 1968. Motorcade: motorcycles on cobbled street accompanying black sedans; crowds lining street, waving and cheering. Men and women dancing on the street, hands held in a circle. Several scenes of tanks advancing and parked in city streets. Men climbing into the back of a truck baring Czechoslovakian flags on fenders. Tracking shot from vehicle of tanks parked on city streets and POV through windshield. Shot of large red banner with the name Dubcek, the reformer and leader of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia at the time. Graffiti: "Russians Go Back," "Nutralita Suverenita." Man places poster over street sign. Man gathering leaflets/paper from the sidewalk. Women and men burning papers in a small bonfire on the sidewalk.