<P> The 2--3 June 1968 student demonstrations in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, were the first mass protest in the country after the Second World War . The authorities suppressed the protest, while President Josip Broz Tito had the protests gradually cease by giving in to some of the students' demands . Protests also broke out in other capitals of Yugoslav republics - Sarajevo, Zagreb and Ljubljana--but they were smaller and shorter than in Belgrade . </P> <P> In 1968, Czechoslovakia underwent a process known as the Prague Spring . In the August 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakian citizens responded to the attack on their sovereignty with passive resistance . Soviet troops were frustrated as street signs were painted over, their water supplies mysteriously shut off, and buildings decorated with flowers, flags, and slogans like, "An elephant cannot swallow a hedgehog ." Passers - by painted swastikas on the sides of Soviet tanks . Road signs in the country - side were over-painted to read, in Russian script, "Москва" (Moscow), as hints for the Soviet troops to leave the country . </P> <P> On 25 August 1968 eight Russian citizens staged a demonstration on Moscow's Red Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia . After about five minutes, the demonstrators were beaten up and transferred to a police station . Seven of them received harsh sentences up to several years in prison . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (August 2016) </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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