8/22 On this day in 1968 the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia, with minimal Western reaction. Less than four years later, Nixon was in Moscow to launch detente. Many things happened in between, not least the border war between China and the USSR (March 1969)./
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