'Soviet Army monument in Sofia painted pink on anniversary of Prague spring'

[Popular Front of Judea]

Unknown artists have painted a Soviet Army monument in the capital, Sofia, pink in honour of the anniversary of the Prague spring.

Residents discovered on Wednesday morning that the figures of Soviet soldiers had been brightly coloured and an inscription added below in Bulgarian and Czech that read: "Bulgaria apologises."

On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring. One hundred and eight people were killed with 500 seriously injured.

Soviet Army monument in Sofia painted pink on anniversary of Prague spring | Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/21/soviet-army-monument-pink-painted-bulgaria/print)

[Popular Front of Judea]

I still like the 2011 modification:

http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/meh.ro7687.jpg

[sixdollarchampagne]

Good for the unknown artists! I can still remember where I was, back in 1968 (crossing Key Bridge, between DC and Arlington, VA), when someone told me that Soviet tanks had rolled into Prague, to put an end to the attempt at creating "socialism with a human face." What an obscenity the Soviet invasion was! Heaven forbid that anyone should try to humanize conditions for ordinary people under the rule of a Stalinist clique! In a way, the Russians almost guaranteed capitalist restoration in the "People's Republics," by the way those Russians had their puppets treat the subject populations in Eastern Europe.

[rednordman]

'Bulgaria apologises'? for what?

[Sasha]

'Bulgaria apologises'? for what?


bulgarian troops where part of the repression of the prague spring:


Main article: Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia)
As these talks proved unsatisfactory, the Soviets began to consider a military alternative. The Soviet Union's policy of compelling the socialist governments of its satellite states (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_state) to subordinate their national interests to those of the "Eastern Bloc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Bloc)" (through military force if needed) became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brezhnev_Doctrine).[44] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring#cite_note-44) On the night of 20–21 August 1968, Eastern Bloc armies from four Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary—invaded the ČSSR.[45] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring#cite_note-45)[46] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring#cite_note-Global-46)


i assume that the nightly painters where bulgarian...