The cover of the magazine Kvety, shown below, features young men standing on the base of the statue in the famous Wenceslas Square near the center of Prague. Graffiti on the statue reads "Soldiers go home" in Russian and "Dubçek - Svoboda" in Czech.
Questions to Consider
Why would editors choose this image for the cover?
What would the image have meant to the young men and women in Czechoslovakia who saw it?
What exactly are the students protesting?
What is the significance of the "Dubçek - Svoboda" graffiti?
Source:
"The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia: August 1968," the Labadie Collection of Social Protest Material, exhibit at the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library. Documents selected by Brian Rosenblum and Jonathan Bolton and translated by Jonathan Bolton. Originally published in
Kvety (21 Aug 1968). http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/czech/des27.html.
