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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Painter Miroslav Cipár, who was born in northern Slovakia, died early November.
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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.
He was also a journalist and writer.
One of the organisers of the Velvet Revolution in Bardejov reminisces about November 1989.
President Zuzana Čaputová addressed the nation on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.
Because of Trump’s dealings with Putin, all eastern Europeans are considered Russians because people don’t distinguish accents, says politician Eva Putzova.
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Freedom is not a birthright. No generation receives freedom ready-made and perfect: pre-prepared for consumption.
Authors Zuzana Palovic and Gabriela Bereghazyova were born behind the Iron Curtain but raised in a free world.
Someone attempted to shake the foundations and we are still able to argue about ornaments. Read the whole speech of President Zuzana Čaputová.
November 17, 1989 was all about giving another chance to dreams stolen in 1948 and 1968.
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How I ran for Mária Rozmaňová who was killed on the border in 1952.
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Politicians celebrated 30 years of freedom, too.
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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?
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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.
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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