In 1968, Suvorov graduated with honours from the Frunze Red Banner Higher Military Command School in Kiev. At the same year, he served in Chernivtsi as a tank platoon commander with the 145th Guards Motor Rifle Regiment, 66th Guards Training Motor Rifle Division, of the Carpathian Military District in Ukraine, participating in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, Operation Danube. This experience is narrated in his 1981 book "The Liberators: My Life in the Soviet Army".