Photo Gallery: The Velvet Revolution Two Decades Later

11/20/2009

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Nov. 17, 2009: Thousands of Czechs march through the streets of Prague to...
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Nov. 17, 2009: Thousands of Czechs march through the streets of Prague to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. The event in 1989 sparked a series of much larger protests and strikes that ended with in the relinquishing of power by the communist regime that December.

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