The Holešov barracks incident was a stand-off confrontation between Soviet and Czechoslovak soldiers during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The Czechoslovak paratroopers, who belonged to the elite of the army and who were trained to carry out diversions, were woken up at three o'clock in the morning by a battle alarm.

[5] According to some, Dubček was supposed to be in a secret location in Czechoslovakia, others spoke of Poland or the area of the former Subcarpathian Rus.

[5][6] On the night of August 21–22, while the guns of the Soviet tanks were aimed at the barracks, ten armed Czechoslovak paratroopers in civilian clothes slipped away to guard strategic points in the city, and sixty more men with weapons and supplies reached the nearby forests as a preparatory phase for eventual action.

[2][5][6] The 60-member detachment continued in groups to the village of Přílepy via the shooting range in Dobrotice, where it hid in dugouts.

[7] The Czechoslovak soldiers managed to convince the Soviets to turn their tanks' guns around to point away from the barracks.

The soldiers stayed in touch with each other, and after the fall of the regime, they founded the Holešov Airborne Veterans Club in 1994.