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The events of 1989 commemorated 20 years on this week brought back many
emotional memories. I was 19 when it happened, still living at home, only
not in Czechoslovakia, but in Canada. Like thousands of others of Czech
descent, born in new countries, I watched the Velvet Revolution unfold on
the TV screen, night after night, until, somehow, miraculously at the end
of it, the Communist system crumbled and collapsed.
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One on OneThe best of One on One in 2005
Today we are taking another chance to hear from some of the most
interesting guests we met on One on One over the course of the year just
ended. They include: musician Zuzana Ruzickova on the horrors of Auschwitz
and Professor Tomas Radil on the liberation of the notorious concentration
camp; journalist Joe Schlesinger on escaping Czechoslovakia, and returning
in 1989; controversial politician Jan Kavan on his English mother's
difficult life in Prague; lower house chairman Lubomir Zaoralek on
visiting North Korea; and Romany rapper Gipsy on telling it like he sees
it.
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