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PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- The Czech Republic will pay compensation to Czech victims of violent Soviet suppression between 1968 and 1991, The Independent reported Thursday.
The government said the highest amount of $6,500 would go to the survivors of those killed, most of them in 1968's so-called Prague Spring, where nearly 100 Czechs were killed and more than 700 injured over several days beginning Aug. 20.
Smaller amounts will be paid to those injured or raped.
"This is recognition of the fact that the state failed in one of its basic functions and did not manage to protect its citizens in 1968. For that it should compensate its citizens," said Petr Necas, opposition defense critic for the Civic Democrats party.
About 30 Soviet divisions backed by troops from Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and East Germany invaded then-Czechoslovakia to put down the country's reform movement led by Prime Minister Alexander Dubcek.
The occupation lasted until June 17, 1991, when the last Soviet soldiers left Czechoslovakia.
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