Warsaw Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia

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1. Story
2. Soviet, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian and East German forces entered Czechoslovakia overnight to end the reform programme of the Prague Spring. Romania refused to participate. The invasion is the only multilateral military operation the Warsaw Pact ever mounted, and it was directed at a member state; the doctrine subsequently articulated to justify it — that the socialist community had a right to intervene where socialism was threatened in one of its members — is the clearest statement of what the alliance actually was. The western powers protested and did not act, exactly as the Soviet Union had not acted over western responses in its own sphere.
3. Knowledge
4. Warsaw Treaty Organization
5. Warsaw Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia
6. Connections
7. Warsaw Treaty Organization
8. Moscow
9. The Warsaw Treaty is signed
10. Warsaw Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia
11. The Warsaw Treaty Organization dissolves itself
12. The Soviet Union is formally dissolved
13. Evidence
14. Supports the date and place of signature and the identity of the eight original parties. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted; no copy of the treaty text could be retrieved in this session. The two-stage dissolution in 1991 and the sequence of Albanian and Romanian detachment are stated at low precision for the same reason.