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Velvet Revolution Gave Teenager Freedom, Sent Havel to Castle
Nov 17th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- A week before I turned 10, my familyand I piled into our battered Lada and set off for a vacation inYugoslavia. Going there was a big deal for us Czechs at the timebecause the country...Czechs Mark 20th Anniversary of Fall of Communism
Nov 17th, 2009 - VOA News
The Czech Republic is marking the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which led to the end of communist rule in what was then Czechoslovakia.
Thousands of Czechs celebrated Tuesday by re-enacting a mass demonstration in the capital...Czechs Celebrate Fall of Communism in 1989
Nov 17th, 2009 - TIME
(PRAGUE) — With their country in deep political crisis, Czechs took to the streets throughout the country Tuesday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of decades of repressive communist rule. They will celebrate with exhibitions...
Czechs celebrate 20th anniversary of communism's fall
Nov 17th, 2009 - CNN
Prague, Czech Republic (CNN) -- Czech students will take to the streets Tuesday, just as they did two decades ago when their historic march ushered in the fall of communist rule.Prague marks Velvet Revolution
Nov 17th, 2009 - BBC NEWS
Playwright Vaclav Havel led the revolution before becoming president
Czechs and Slovaks are to mark the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution - which brought down the Communist government of the then-Czechoslovakia.
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9:59VR Speaks to Ohio Lawyers About Karl Rove and Election Fraud
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Velvet Revolution from WikiPedia:
The Velvet Revolution (Czech: sametová revoluce) or Gentle Revolution (Slovak: nežná revolúcia) (November 16 – December 29, 1989) was a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government. It is seen as one of the most important of the Revolutions of 1989.
On November 17, 1989, a Friday, riot police suppressed a peaceful student demonstration in Prague. That event sparked a series of popular demonstrations from November 19 to late December. By November 20 the number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague had swollen from 200,000 the previous day to an estimated half-million. A two-hour general strike, involving all citizens of Czechoslovakia, was held on November 27.
With the collapse of other Communist governments and increasing street protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announced on November 28 that it would relinquish power and dismantle the single-party state.
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