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The irruption Andrea Aguilar tells that Koudelka A call in the middle of the night woke him up. Such was the agitation of the voice on the other end of the phone she thought her friend was drunk. When she realized what was happening, she grabbed her Exakta Varexs camera and shot into the streets. It was August , and Soviet tanks were putting a violent end to the open reforms that Alexander Dubcek had undertaken during the Prague Spring. In August , Comrade Leonid Brezhnevs order was carried out and the Warsaw Pact forces invaded Prague.
  
The chairmanship of the Central Committee of the e-commerce photo editing communist Party broadcast on Radio Czechoslovakia a desperate message Yesterday, August the armies of the USSR, the Polish Peoples Republic, the German Democratic Republic, the Peoples Republic from Hungary and the Peoples Republic of Bulgaria crossed the national border of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. it is exhorted all citizens of the Republic to remain calm and not offer resistance to the invading armies, because at this time it is impossible to defend our national border. interprets the event through the eyes of an artist because he is not a photojournalist in the strict sense.



By then he already has a great eye for composition and light thanks to his years as a theater photographer and his experience with the gypsies moving through the invasion with technical agility and agility. The photographer reveals I didnt think anything, it was an extreme situation and I reacted to it.   josefkoudelkaSeveral decades later, British photographer Ian Berry then recalled seeing a daredevil young man shooting tanks face to face, and the crowd standing peacefully before them. Berry thought he was either crazy or brave.  The strength of his historical testimony is due to the fact that He himself, during the events, embodied the independence and availability that the Russians had come to crush, while he walked the streets with the camera, despite the danger.