Sedm pražských dnů Ivo Masaříka. Deníkové záznamy o invazi armád Varšavské smlouvy do ČSSR v srpnu 1968
Ivo Masařík’s seven days in Prague. Diary records of the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops into the CSSR in August 1968

Summary/Abstract: In August this year it will have been 50 years since the armies of five Warsaw Pact states invaded Czechoslovakia. Nevertheless, new recollections of eye-witnesses, which help create and refine our picture of those events, continue to appear. At the time of the Prague Spring Ivo Masařík was 27 years old, had completed his university education and was working at the General Directorate of the Fire Service in Prague. He began keeping notes of what he had seen on the first day of the occupation, 21 August 1968, when he learned from the radio that troops were occupying the country. Like thousands of other citizens he took to the streets. He didn’t become actively involved in the resistance against the occupiers but instead spent days crisscrossing central Prague, recording and photographing the unfolding occupation. During the day he observed and in the evenings he wrote notes, which literally constitute a first-hand account. Masařík’s photographs from that time are being made public for the first time.

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