Current Affairs March that sparked Velvet Revolution re-created in Prague

18-11-2009 15:37 | Sarah Borufka

The people of the Czech Republic have been marking the 20th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution, which led to the collapse of the country’s Communist government after over four decades of repression. The main event on Tuesday was the re-enactment in Prague of the student demonstration that sparked those changes in 1989.

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