Editing Prague (section)

====Cold War====
{{Main|History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic}}
[[File:Havla 1989.jpg|thumb|Velvet Revolution in November 1989]]

Prague was a city in a country under the military, economic, and political control of the [[Soviet Union]] (see [[Iron Curtain]] and [[COMECON]]). The world's largest [[Stalin Monument (Prague)|Stalin Monument]] was unveiled on [[Letná]] hill in 1955 and destroyed in 1962.
The 4th Czechoslovak Writers' Congress, held in the city in June 1967, took a strong position against the regime.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pehe |first1=Jiří |author-link=Jiří Pehe |title=Post-Communist Reflections of the Prague Spring |url=http://www.pehe.cz/Members/redaktor/post-communist-refections-of-the-prague-spring |website=Jiří Pehe |date=6 November 2008 |access-date=7 September 2017 |archive-date=17 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917092115/http://www.pehe.cz/Members/redaktor/post-communist-refections-of-the-prague-spring |url-status=live}}</ref> On 31 October 1967 students demonstrated at [[Strahov (district of Prague)|Strahov]]. This spurred the new secretary of the [[Czechoslovak Communist Party]], [[Alexander Dubček]], to proclaim a new deal in his city's and country's life, starting the short-lived season of the "[[socialism with a human face]]". It was the [[Prague Spring]], which aimed at the renovation of political institutions in a democratic way. The other [[Warsaw Pact]] member countries, except [[Socialist Republic of Romania|Romania]] and [[People's Republic of Albania|Albania]], were led by the [[Soviet Union]] to repress these reforms through the [[Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia|invasion of Czechoslovakia]] and the capital, Prague, on 21 August 1968. The invasion, chiefly by infantry and tanks, effectively suppressed any further attempts at reform. The military occupation of Czechoslovakia by the [[Red Army]] would end only in 1991.{{fact|date=April 2025}} [[Jan Palach]] and [[Jan Zajíc]] committed suicide by [[self-immolation]] in January and February 1969 to protest against the "[[Normalization (Czechoslovakia)|normalization]]" of the country.