Velvet Revolution

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/25/2020
  

  Milos Jakes, Czech Communist Leader, Is Dead at 97

  Mr. Jakes “came to be seen as the epitome of an out-of-touch Communist Party functionary,” said professor Mary Heimann.

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• 12/10/19
  

  30 years after Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, have we come full circle?

  by Gideon Remez

  History is repeating itself as Havelian satire rather than farce. Again, an autocratic Moscow is working to expand its sphere, weaken its adversaries and break up their alliances.

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• SOURCE: Time
  November 16, 2019
  

  Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution Started 30 Years Ago—But It Was Decades in the Making

  by Andy Kopsa

    The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia had been long in the making before protests erupted 30 years ago.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2-16-15
  

  The Hero Europe Needed

  by Michael Ignatieff

  A quarter century after the Velvet Revolution, Václav Havel's legacy is in disarray. His life illuminates a dissident generation's dreams and the revenge that history has taken on them.