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By Tamara Deutscher, Zuzana Bluh-Sling and Ken Coates
“In July 1968 , when the Czechs and Slovaks still hopefully celebrated the Prague
Spring, Kosterin together with Grigorenko and three other Communists signed a
statement of solidarity and good will to the Czechoslovak Embassy in Moscow. When a month later the tanks of the Warsaw Pact countries rolled into Czechoslovakia, a small group of Grigorenko’s young friends demonstrated against the invasion on the Red Square in Mscow. By that time the security forces were on the alert. Five of the demonstrators were tried and sentenced in October 1968.”
