Divoký západ si z našeho státu už dělat nedáme... Průběh demonstrací 21. a 22. srpna 1969 v Brně
We will not let anyone turn our country into the wild west… the course of demonstrations in Brno on 21 and 22 august 1969

Summary/Abstract: The protests in August 1969, associated with the first anniversary of the invasion of the Warsaw Pact armies, became the largest uprising of the Czechoslovak society against the communist regime prior to November 1989. It was primarily the young generation, which did not want to come to terms with an oncoming normalisation, who expressed the last symbolic gesture of resistance. The brutal suppression of the protests by the police, the People’s Militia and the army put an end to the Prague Spring. The demonstrations took part in many Czech, Moravian and Slovak cities. Somewhere, they took the form of a peaceful gathering, but most of them were wild riots, later characterized by the communist regime as the largest threat to public order since 1945. Aside from Prague and Liberec, the most dramatic situation was in Brno.

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