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Velvet Revolution

On November 17, Slovakia and the Czech Republic mark 30 years since the Velvet Revolution, a wave of demonstrations that toppled the communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989.

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Smer MP Ľuboš Blaha.
Police investigate MP Ľuboš Blaha and SNS leader Andrej Danko.
Bringing down the Iron Curtain in Devin near Bratislava, December 1989.
The language of its memories is velvety, but our non-violent revolution required real effort.
A 1989 protest gathering in Bratislava.
Less than half see end of communist regime in positive light, new poll shows.
Painter and illustrator Miroslav Cipár died at the age of 86 on November 8, 2021.
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Painter Miroslav Cipár, who was born in northern Slovakia, died early November. Peter Getting
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In the recent Czech election, voters finally turfed the Communist Party out of parliament. Yet 32 years after the fall of communism, its legacy still casts a long shadow over the former Czechoslovakia.
Vladimír Savčinský.
One of the organisers of the Velvet Revolution in Bardejov reminisces about November 1989.
President Zuzana Čaputová
President Zuzana Čaputová addressed the nation on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
Eva Putzova
Because of Trump’s dealings with Putin, all eastern Europeans are considered Russians because people don’t distinguish accents, says politician Eva Putzova.
Katarína Kaszasová
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Auditors are like detectives, says head of Auditing Oversight Authority.
The For a Decent Slovakia protest gathering in Bratislava in 2019.
Freedom is not a birthright. No generation receives freedom ready-made and perfect: pre-prepared for consumption.
Zuzana Palovic and Gabriela Bereghazyova
Authors Zuzana Palovic and Gabriela Bereghazyova were born behind the Iron Curtain but raised in a free world.
President Zuzana Čaputová attended the official ceremony of naming the square.
Someone attempted to shake the foundations and we are still able to argue about ornaments. Read the whole speech of President Zuzana Čaputová. Zuzana Čaputová
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November 17, 1989 was all about giving another chance to dreams stolen in 1948 and 1968. Andrea Sadloňová
About 50 people ran on November 17 to commemorate the 42 people who were killed at the Iron Curtain between former Czechoslovakia and Austria in their attempts to flee the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1948-1989.
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How I ran for Mária Rozmaňová who was killed on the border in 1952.
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The organisers and participants stressed the importance of the 2020 general election.
Has the country survived the abductions of the state, the inoculation of Mečiar, Fico governments and the Kočner underworld without harm to democracy?
Velvet Revolution Square in Bratislava
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Part of SNP Square, where mass rallies against the communist regime took place 30 years ago, has been named after the Velvet Revolution.
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