Editing Prague Spring (section)

=== Places and historical sites ===
The photographs that were taken in Vinohradská Avenue and [[Wenceslas Square]] are widely represented in the photographic archive of the 1968 invasion while other sites of protests are missing. The memory of the Prague Spring is marked by the Czech Republic's and Slovakia's desire to avoid unpleasant collective memories leading to a process of historical amnesia and narrative whitewashing. Photographs taken by [[Josef Koudelka]] portray memories of the invasion such as a memorial to the victims set up in Wenceslas Square.  There are many omnipresent signs of memorial of the Soviet invasion in the city of Prague.<ref name="Skovajsa 2014 671">{{Cite journal|last=Skovajsa|first=Marek|date=2014|title=Total and Foreign-Journal Citedness of Sociologický časopis: The Results of a Citation Analysis|journal=Czech Sociological Review|volume=50|issue=5|pages=671–712|doi=10.13060/00380288.2014.50.5.119|issn=0038-0288|doi-access=free}}</ref>

During the invasion, protesters set up several memorials to record the location of the victims' death. The [[Jan Palach]] memorial is a monument remembering the suicide of a student in 1969. This place is often called the "boulevard of history." Palach was the first to kill himself in [[Wenceslas Square]] but was not the last, he was belonging to a student pact of resistance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/jan-palach-memorial|title=Jan Palach Memorial|website=Atlas Obscura|language=en|access-date=2019-08-24}}</ref> There is also (at Újezd, at the bottom of Petrin hill) the memorial for the victims of communism in Prague: a narrowing staircase along which seven male bronze silhouettes descend. The first one, the one at the bottom, is complete, while the others gradually disappear. It aims at representing the same person at different phases of the destruction caused by communist ideology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.afar.com/places/memorial-to-the-victims-of-communism-prague|title=Memorial to the Victims of Communism {{!}} Prague {{!}} Czech Republic {{!}} AFAR|date=2019-06-06|website=www.afar.com|access-date=2019-08-24|archive-date=24 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824023333/https://www.afar.com/places/memorial-to-the-victims-of-communism-prague|url-status=live}}</ref>