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Summary:Early on August 21, troops from the Soviet Union and four other Warsaw Pact countries moved into Czechoslovakia. They had come, according to official Soviet statements, to forestall a counter-revolutionary threat to the Socialist system there.
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Location:CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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