Kammala wannan jumlar: A daren 20 ga Agusta zuwa 21, 1968, sojojin Gabashin Gabas daga kasashe hudu na Warsaw Pact <unk> Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland da Hungary <unk>
sun mamaye Czechoslovakia. Harin ya yi daidai da koyarwar Brezhnev, wata manufa ta tilasta wa jihohin Gabashin Gabas su ba da fifiko ga bukatun kasa da na Bloc a matsayin cikakke da kuma yin amfani da haƙƙin Soviet don shiga tsakani idan wata ƙasa ta Gabashin Gabas ta kasance tana juyawa zuwa tsarin jari hujja. mamayewa ya biyo bayan ƙaura, gami da kimanin 'yan Czech 70,000 da suka fara gudu, tare da jimillar ƙarshe ya kai 300,000. A watan Afrilun 1969, an maye gurbin Dubček a matsayin sakatare na farko ta Gustáv Husák, kuma lokacin "samar da al'ada" ya fara. Husák ya juyar da gyare-gyaren Dubček, ya tsarkake jam'iyyar daga membobin 'yanci, ya kori abokan adawa daga ofishin gwamnati, ya sake dawo da ikon hukumomin' yan sanda, ya nemi sake mayar da tattalin arzikin kasa da kuma sake dawo da rashin amincewa da maganganun siyasa a cikin manyan kafofin watsa labarai da kuma mutanen da ba a dauke su da "cikakken amincewar siyasa ba". Hoton kasa da kasa na Tarayyar Soviet ya sha wahala sosai, musamman a tsakanin ƙungiyoyin ɗalibai na Yammacin Turai waɗanda aka yi wahayi zuwa gare su ta hanyar "Sabuwar Hagu" da jihohin da ba a haɗa su ba. Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Sin ta Mao Zedong, alal misali, ta la'anci Soviets da Amurkawa a matsayin masu mulkin mallaka.