The Czechoslovak forces were confined to their barracks, which were surrounded until the threat of a counter-attack was assuaged.
Vodstvo njegove Partije je bilo pri tem razdeljeno na odločne reformatorje (Josef Smrkovský, Oldřich Černík in František Kriegel), ki so podprli Dubčka, in konzervativce (Vasil Biľak, Drahomír Kolder in Oldřich Švestka), ki so sprejeli protireformistično stanje.