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        "title": "Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia is followed by the return of government press press controls",
        "occurred_on": "1968-08-21",
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        "country": "CZ",
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        "issue_of_the_day": "Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring reforms, including eased press press controls, had alarmed the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, who invaded to reverse the liberalization before it could spread further.",
        "outcome": "reversed",
        "outcome_on": "1989-11-01",
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        "era": "1960s",
        "granularity": "anchor",
        "status": "historical",
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        "summary": "Soviet-led Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia on August 20-21, 1968 to end the Prague Spring, a period of liberalization under Alexander Dubček that had included the lifting of press press controls. In the invasion's aftermath, the new leadership reimposed government press controls of the press.",
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