« For your liberty and ours »
At noon, August 25th, 1968, on Red Square, eight people protest against the entry of Russian tanks into Czechoslovakia. « For your liberty and ours » is one of their slogans. This demonstration, which only lasts several minutes, marks a decisive turning point in the evolution of the Soviet dissident movement and still constitutes a major event in contemporary history. Victor Fainberg, then a guide at the palace-museum of Pavlovsk near Leningrad, is one of those eight demonst