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On November 21, TV Zvezda, the Russian Defense Ministry’s official media outlet, published a controversial opinion piece that was taken off its website the next day. In it, Leonid Maslovsky argued that the Czech people should be grateful" to the USSR and its Warsaw Pact allies for militarily invading Czechoslovakia in 1968 to put down the "Prague Spring" protests.Maslovsky alleged that the protests were a Western-instigated plot to overthrow the government. "The introduction of troops into Czechoslovakia in 1968 prevented the West from carrying out a coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia using the technology of ‘velvet’ revolutions and preserved peace and harmony with all the peoples of the countries of the Warsaw Treaty Organization for more than twenty years
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