The current generation of politicians should try to prevent a similar situation from repeating, the two presidents said at a meeting marking the 40th anniversary of the Soviet occupation. "It is a joint black chapter in the Czech and Slovak history," Gasparovic said, adding that tanks could never bring freedom. Following the meeting that was closed to journalists, Klaus and Gasparovic visited an exhibition of photographs from 1968 that is on the public display in Safarik Square in the centre of Bratislava. Two citizens of Georgia demonstrated against Klaus's positions Czech Foreign Minister to receive his Kosovo counterpart ...
Seven Czechs leave Georgia, no Czech in area of fighting-official ...
Sausage stand vendor loses court battle ... directly in the exhibition area.
They carried out a poster featuring Klaus along with the authoritarian leaders - Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Fidel Castro of Cuba and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. "Klaus has found himself on this table of honour thanks to his views on the Russia-Georgia conflict," one of the participants in the protest said. Klaus has repeatedly warned against a one-sided view on the latest conflict in the Caucasus and blamed Georgia for igniting it. Klaus and Gasparovic also laid wreaths at the memorial to three victims of the Soviet occupation that is placed on the stairs of Comenius University in Bratislava. Three people including 17-year-old student Dana Kosanova were shot dead there in August 1968.
(Ceske Noviny)
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