Fifty years ago, on August 28, 1968, Ukrainian leaders and organizations in the United States and Canada expressed “shock, indignation and outrage” following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia on August 21, which left 137 dead and more than 500 injured.
Dr. Lev Dobriansky, chairman of the National Captive Nations Committee and president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, called on the U.S. to voice outrage at the United Nations, and elsewhere, and to seek U.N. intervention in Czechoslovakia. The Organization for the Defense of Four Freedoms for Ukraine (Washington Branch) marched in the Czechoslovakia-sponsored demonstration protesting the “treacherous aggression.”