Prime Minister visits exhibition on 1968 Warsaw Pact occupation

At the end of his one-day official visit to Budapest on Tuesday, Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) visited an exhibition of the work of Slovak photographer Ladislav Bielik (1939-1984) involving photographs depicting moments from the occupation of Bratislava by Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968. The exhibition was prepared by the Slovak Embassy in Budapest, the Czech Embassy in Budapest and the Slovak Institute in Budapest. "This year is a year in which we're marking events that happened in years that ended in the number 8, and we can't turn a blind eye to events such as August 1968," said the prime minister, referring to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia on the night of August 20-21, 1968 that suppressed the communist-era reformist process known as the Prague Spring.