More than 100 events will commemorate the Velvet Revolution

Project creators renamed revolution as evolution.

Exhibition in BratislavaExhibition in Bratislava (Source: TASR)

The Velvet Revolution is turning into evolution. That is the main idea of the project conducted by the Milan Šimečka Foundation to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime.

The project creators said that the manifesto of November ’89, signed 30 years ago on November 20, is still alive today. The creators changed the original version a little to show its accuracy for the current age.

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“The play with the word (r)evolution is to alert young people that the November 1989 demands are still valid and it is necessary to advocate for them,” the creators said, as quoted by the press release.

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