Although the tanks were hardly discernible from the main road, the Russians appeared to be making no attempts at concealment. Moving southInformed sources in Warsaw said that Soviet troops, sighted in areas of north-east, east, and west Poland, had been moving south. According to West Berlin sources, the East German Ministry had also forbidden the Czech embassy from distributing the manifesto to East Germans who asked for it. But a fair number of copies are thought to be already in East German hands. The East German Communist party organ Neues Deutschland today published a full-page condemnation of the Czechoslovakian Party leadership.

Source: The Guardian July 31, 2021 04:30 UTC