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55 years ago, on August 25, 1968, in four days after Soviet Union entered armies into Prague, eight people — Babitsky Konstantin, Baeva Tatyana, Bogoraz Larissa, Gorbanevskaya Natalia, Delone Vadim, Dremlyuga Vladimir, Litvinov Pawel and Faynberg Victor — came to Red Square and developed posters in support of independence of Czechoslovakia. All of them were detained, got penals or are sent for compulsory treatment. This action became the most known and significant protest in the history of the Soviet dissident movement, but not the only thing — hundreds people in the USSR, risking freedom, left...