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The symbols of the USSR and communism: the hammer and sickle. (Credit: Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

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1963

Tito is made president of Yugoslavia for life

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Yugoslavia surrenders to the Nazis

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Soviets invade Czechoslovakia

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Romanian government falls

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Prague Spring begins in Czechoslovakia

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Architect of Czechoslovakia’s Prague Spring resigns

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