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1969 Press Photo Prague Police Tear Gas Czechoslovakian

Caption: PRAGUE POLICE PREPARE TO USE GAS-Prague city and special riot police don gas masks in Wenceslas Square Wednesday. They were preparing to use tear gas in an effort to drive away Czechoslovakians massed in the square in protest of the first anniversary of the Soviet led Warsaw pack intervention which ended the trend to liberalism in the small central European nation. Two persons were killed and more than 320 persons arrested during a riot which erupted Wednesday night, government sources said Thursday. Photo dimensions: 11 x 7.75. Photo date: 8-21-1969

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