The head of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman was thinking about the cancellation of the visit to the celebrations on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the great Patriotic war. About it He said the portal Parlamentnilisty. He said criticism of the Russian foreign Ministry to the law, which recognizes August 21 as the day of remembrance of the victims of "invasion and subsequent occupation" of Czechoslovakia by troops of the Warsaw Pact in 1968. Zeman called the position of the Agency " absolute arrogance." "some time ago I accepted the invitation of President Putin to participate in the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in world war II. I am currently thinking about whether to go there or That I'm likely to do, to go and tell the Russians: "What if you were on the same page and has ceased to celebrate this anniversary," He said. in early December, the Czech Senate passed a law recognizing 21 August as the day of remembrance of the victims of the invasion of 1968. The Russian foreign Ministry told That expressed disappointment at this step. A similar approach contradicts the bilateral agreements embodied in the Russian-Czech Treaty on friendly relations and cooperation, according to the report of the Ministry. As emphasized in the Ministry, desire to return to Prague half a century ago events in the modern political context and the reluctance to turn this page of history are unlikely to help in the successful development of bilateral relations. on the night of 21 August 1968, troops of the USSR, GDR, Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria invaded Czechoslovakia to stop the reforms of the " Prague spring ". The Soviet leadership was afraid of losing the supervision over the Republic. A similar turn of events threatened to split the Eastern European socialist bloc. Fighting practice was carried out. There were isolated attacks on military, but the vast majority of the people of Czechoslovakia did not resist. According to local historians, from August 1968 until June 1991, when the military of the Soviet Union left the territory of Czechoslovakia, lost his life 406 Czechs and Slovaks. Russian scientists say about the death of 12 Soviet soldiers during the first month after joining forces in Czechoslovakia. <span style="color:darkgray