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But it has taken us a long time to learn this lesson.
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Day-by-day overview of the fall of totalitarian regime in Czechoslovakia.
One of the leaders of the 1989 student movement, Anton Popovič, remembers the fall of the totalitarian regime.
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Professor Ľubica Lacinová remembers her life before and after 1989.
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People in the streets weren’t damaged by the regime; it rather annoyed, tired and disgusted them, said the singer songwriter of the 1989 revolution anthem.
Former NBS governor Vladimir Masár was one of the people who facilitated Slovakia’s transition to a market economy.
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A Canadian diplomat thinks back to his time in Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution.
But many people still yield to myths about the communist regime and nostalgia.
Many older Slovaks are nostalgic of the job security and the flats they got “from the state for free” before 1989.
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Project creators renamed revolution as evolution.
When the people experience that they can win over anti-democratic forces on their own without help from outside, then it fortifies their immune reactions.
A third of Slovaks question the Velvet Revolution, a survey shows.
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Milan Sládek will premiere The Magic Four in Bratislava. It may be his last opus.
The Government's Office will hold its own event. Gatherings on the squares will commemorate 30 years since the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia.
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Each book is produced by a different duo of Slovak writers and illustrators.
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Teenagers struggle to imagine life without freedoms.
Spectator College provides readers of The Slovak Spectator who are trying to improve their English with glossaries of useful and frequently used words and expressions from stories published as part of the Spectator…
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Researcher Ľubica Lacinová recalls her life under communism and the events of 1989 in a podcast interview.
Anton Pižurný did not believe the communist regime could fall. Yet, he copied an illegal document that would help to bring about the revolution in his town.
Jana Plulíková did not understand communism as a child. At university, she and other like-minded students rigorously tried to bring it down. Successfully.
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