By AFP Published August 18, 2018 - Bulgarian soldiers who took part in crushing the 1968 Prague Spring democracy movement under orders from Moscow bristle at being considered aggressors.

The ancient spring festival of Nevruz was celebrated in Bulgaria's capital Sofia on Wednesday in a festival organized by an international Turkish organization ( İhvan Radoykov - Anadolu Ajansı ) ...

Bulgaria, once Moscow’s most obedient satellite, took part in the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia that smashed the Prague Spring movement on August 20, 1968. Poland and Hungary also took part.

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Bulgarian soldiers who took part in crushing the 1968 Prague Spring democracy movement under orders from Moscow bristle at being considered aggressors. "If we were aggressors in Czechoslovakia ...