Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

August 20–21, 1968 · Czechoslovak Socialist Republic

Result Warsaw Pact victory

Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia to end the reforms of the Prague Spring. Alexander Dubček was later removed, and Soviet troops stayed until 1991.

On the map Contemporaries

Eastern Bloc

Czechoslovakia

Poland

Warsaw Pact

Soviet Union

Czechoslovakia

Leonid Brezhnev military commander

János Kádár military commander

Wojciech Jaruzelski military commander

Józef Cyrankiewicz belligerent leader

Alexei Kosygin belligerent leader

Andrei Grechko military commander

Alexander Dubček military commander

Ludvík Svoboda military commander

Oldřich Černík military commander

Strength and losses

Wounded: 87

Soviet Union Killed 96

Units

11th Guards Army 14th Guards Combined Arms Army 28th Army (Soviet Union) 38th Army (Soviet Union) 254th Motor Rifle Division 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division 47th Tank Division (Russia) 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division 7th Guards Tank Division 103rd Separate Guards Airborne Brigade 128th Mountain Assault Brigade 108th Guards Kuban Cossack Air Assault Regiment 752nd Guards Motor Rifle Regiment