“For the shot Prague Spring of 1968!” – an inscription in Czech on an R-27 missile mounted on a Ukrainian fighter. “Prague Spring” – a period of reforms in the Czechoslovak Republic, which ended with the invasion of Soviet troops, who brutally suppressed popular protests.

“For the shot Prague Spring of 1968!” – an inscription in Czech on an R-27 missile mounted on a Ukrainian fighter. “Prague Spring” – a period of reforms in the Czechoslovak Republic, which ended with the invasion of Soviet troops, who brutally suppressed popular protests.