Margot Buff is a multimedia editor for RFE/RL.
When Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia 50 years ago, crushing the period of liberalization known as the Prague Spring, a young photographer named Libor Hajsky captured scenes of violence and fear -- as well as moments of empathy and dark humor.
Forty years ago this week, the first civic opposition movement in the Eastern Bloc was born, and a rock band was at its heart. Czechoslovak dissidents drew up the human rights petition known as Charter 77 after the Communist authorities jailed members of an underground musical group.
