Stock Photo - British citizen Chris Rooney, author of images from Prague Spring on 21st August 1968, visited on Moday, 27th August 2018 the site at Vinohradska and Italska crosroad in Prague where he was captured by CTK photographer Libor Hajsky 50 years ago. Rooney set out for his pen-friend in Prague in August 1968, unexpectedly appeared in the middle of the events that frightened him, but still he started taking photos of both the Soviet troops and barricades, he has told CTK. When doing so, he was captured by Libor Hajsky, a photographer for the Czech News Agency (CTK). The photo at which Rooney was standing on an overturned van under a Czechoslovak flag on a corner of Italska and Vinohradska streets became one of the iconic descriptions of the events in August 1968. Rooney only said briefly before the 50th anniversary of the occupation that he was the photographed man on the van. He gave the so far unpublished photos and an interview to CTK. (CTK Photo/Rene Fluger)

Stock Photo: British citizen Chris Rooney, author of images from Prague Spring on 21st August 1968, visited on Moday, 27th August 2018 the site at Vinohradska and Italska.

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