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SpecialA brief look at 'protest' music plus the underground scene in Czechoslovakia from 1968 - 1989
Fifteen years ago to the day student protestors took to the streets of
Prague demanding an end to one-party rule, kicking off a process that
would quickly - far more quickly than anyone expected - lead to the
unravelling of Czechoslovakia's Communist regime. Music, too, played an
important role: with the outcome of those turbulent days far from certain,
tens of thousands demonstrated on Wenceslas Square, singing the civil
rights anthem, 'We Shall Overcome'.
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Current AffairsHost of events marking 15th anniversary of start of Velvet Revolution
There are an unprecedented number of special events taking place this
November 17th, a state holiday which marks the anniversary of the
beginning of the Velvet Revolution. They include a service in memory of
Jan Opletal, an anti-Communist reenactment of the 1989 demonstration
quelled by riot police on Narodni Street and a big concert entitled
Narodni Otherwise.
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One on OneNo nostalgia among children of former Communist leaders
Wednesday is the 17th November - 15 years after the huge demonstrations in
Prague that marked the beginning of the end for the communist system in
Czechoslovakia. So today we bring you a special programme instead of our
usual One on One. In yesterday's broadcast you had a chance to hear the
children of former dissidents talk about their lives then and now. Today
we talk to two different women who used to be on the other side of the
fence - their parents were prominent Communist officials before 1989.
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Talking PointChildren of the Underground
To mark the 15th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, Nikola Brabenec set
out to speak with the now full grown children of dissidents involved in
Charter 77, the human rights declaration which brought together the
dissident movement.
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Current AffairsWho is to take credit for Velvet Revolution?
Monday was a holiday here in the Czech Republic, marking the fourteenth
anniversary of the Velvet Revolution that put an unexpected end to forty
years of Communist rule. Although the country's historians and politicians
are still arguing over who should be credited for the Communists'
downfall, the major role of the dissident movement has never really been
questioned. But in an article for last Saturday's daily Mlada Fronta Dnes,
Czech President Vaclav Klaus played down the role of the dissident elite,
saying it was ordinary people, leading their everyday lives who should
really be thanked for bringing down communism.
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Press ReviewPress Review
The devastation wrought by the terrorist attacks in Istanbul, the
fourteenth anniversary of the student protests which led to the fall of
communism in the former Czechoslovakia and possible changes in the Czech
government - those are the lead stories on today's front pages.
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