• Czechs boo prime minister Andrej Babis at memorial to the 1968 Soviet invasion
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https://www.dw.com/en/czechs-boo-prime-minister-at-soviet-invasion-memorial/a-45159325 Prime Minister Andrej Babis was booed in central Prague on Tuesday at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. A former member of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, Babis was speaking at a memorial when his words were drowned out with boos and shouts of "Shame!" from protesters in the crowd. Babis didn't immediately react to the protest. "He who governs with the Communists disrespects the victims of the occupation of 1968!" read posters held by protesters in front of the radio station in downtown Prague where around 15 unarmed people, mostly youths, died trying to prevent the Soviets from taking the building 50 years ago. "The invasion by the Warsaw Pact army was brutal," said Babis at the memorial at the Czech Radio building. "Many of our people lost their lives." Babis, who is the founder of the populist ANO Party, became prime minister last year. He has faced fierce criticism related to his communist past and a power-sharing deal he made with the maverick Communist Party. He is also facing fraud charges and allegations that he collaborated with the former communist-era secret police. Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia on Aug. 20, 1968 to crush liberal reforms enacted in the brief era known as the "Prague Spring". The movement was led by Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek who tried to put "a human face on socialism" through democratic reforms to Czechoslovakia's totalitarian regime. In 1968 alone, 137 people were killed by Warsaw Pact soldiers, and a total of more than 400 died during the occupation of Czechoslovakia that ended only after the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution. Czech public television has been airing special programs about the events of August 21, 1968 all day Tuesday. In the evening the station will broadcast a speech by Slovak President Andrej Kiska. Czech President Milos Zeman, an ex-communist known for his pro Russian views, has decided to stay silent on the occasion. Zeman's decision not to attend the commemoration ceremonies has been strongly criticized by right wing opposition parties.
Is there a video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQq24sSQ1I
Yeah about that.
My mom had the same reasoning and now she can't stop cursing his name since in work she has to deal with the EET bullshit
People said this about Trump too. Always seemed like ludicrous reasoning to ne
Funnily enough, my parents still praise him, but they also praise Zeman, the communist party and the goddamn-fucking SPD. That's just my parents, two of my older brothers are like loudspeakers for the Kremlin propaganda, my sister is the enlightened centrist who says everybody's shit and my oldest brother is probably the only one of my siblings that actually does his research, fact checking, dislikes Zeman, Babiš, SPD and the communists, therefore our views are fairly similar... but he lives on the other side of the country and I only see him two or three times a year, at most. So what I'm trying to say is that living with my parents is really bad when it comes to political views and even worse when the two brothers come over.
'This Leopard has already eaten lots of other people's faces, so why would it do it again?'
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