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The Czech Republic and Slovakia are holding individual commemorations of the 41st anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. In Prague, the focus is on the collapse of "socialism with a human face" and the beginning of "normalization," which resulted in 20 years of Czechoslovakian isolation from the West. To mark the occasion, [Mladá Fronta DNES](http://zpravy.idnes.cz/foto.asp?r=domaci&c=A090820_152245_domaci_jw) features previously unpublished photographs of protests in Prague on 21 August, 1969, the first anniversary of the invasion. In Bratislava, the anniversary has prompted yet another Slovak-Hungarian quarrel. Lidové Noviny reports that several Slovak politicians, led by the Slovak President and Prime Minister, have signed a call to prevent the Hungarian President from attending the inauguration of a statue of Saint Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, in Komárno, southern Slovakia. The daily regrets the passing of a period of relatively good relations between the two countries, when Slovak politicians often alluded to their common history and the entente between Slovaks and Hungarians within the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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