Prague, Nov 17, 2025 (AFP) - Czechs, Slovaks to slam leaders on Velvet Revolution anniversary

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2025-11-17

Czechs and Slovaks will rally in both countries Monday, the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled communism in former Czechoslovakia, to denounce the leaders they say have betrayed its legacy. On November 17, 1989, communist police brutally crushed a peaceful student march in the centre of Prague, sparking an uprising that toppled the Moscow-steered regime after four decades. Like in the other Soviet-bloc countries at the time, t......

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