Current Affairs Communist agreement to dialogue after pre-revolution environmental protests unprecedented, says historian
November 17 is the anniversary of the start of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution. But what is less well known is that six days earlier it was preceded by what has been described as the “smog revolution”, when hundreds of people – angered by the appalling state of the local environment – took to the streets in the north Bohemian city of Teplice.
Miroslav Vaněk
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