“For your freedom and ours”, one of banners of demonstrators from the Red Square Demonstration, 1968
The 1968 Red Square demonstration took place on 25 August 1968 at Red Square, Moscow, Soviet Union, to protest the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, that occurred during the night of 20–21 August 1968, crushing the so-called Prague spring, a set of de-centralization reforms promoted by Alexander Dubček.
The Italian team commemorated on a 1968 Ajman stamp - HAPPY EURO FINALLLL ITALY & SPAIN :P
Carrying a guitar and a M16 rifle, a Marine waits at a landing strip for a flight out of Khe Sanh, Vietnam, February 25th, 1968
My Lai Massacre, 1968
The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of “Charlie” Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the Americal Division. Most of the victims were women, children (including babies), and elderly people. Some of the bodies were later found to be mutilated. While 26 US soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Mỹ Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but only served three and a half years under house arrest.
