In an attempt to escape the gunfire, some students climbed out of the windows and sat on the ledge, but one of the girls could not hold on and fell, becoming the fourth victim of the attack
Czechoslovakia
He escaped Communist-era Czechoslovakia in a homemade hang glider in 1984, then founded a propeller company in California in 1986
June 24th is declared the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Communist Regime
The statue to Marshal Ivan Konev is reviled by some in Prague as a symbol of the decades of Communist rule that followed the war
The death toll from the communist invasion has been put at between 82 and 137 people