Velvet Revolution 1989

[Guynumber7]

@mess9u2 i agree that a lot of it as bad but it could have been like china is today, prosperous and strong nations but glashnost and peristroika tried to reform too quickly . china is undergoing unprecended growth while the west stagnates. no one listens to protests here anyways. we just let them unlike communism because it makes them feel better

[LodeRunner1337]

Long live the communism! ☭

[Guynumber7]

And 20 years later the European Union faces similar problems as their economies fail to integrate, and occupy protestors protests the so called great "capitalist" system.

Communism is not gone.

[mess9u2]

@Guynumber7 At least when we see failure as a people under Capitalism, we have the right to protest unlike in communist systems! Why a wall to prevent people from travel, why land mines, why guard towers, why, because they see those people under communsim flee!

[jackamadeustreacher]

RIP Vaclav Havel.

[vlasolis]

@jackamadeustreacher Jdi si rýpnout na záchod ty zkracovačko.

[FreeRoosterGR]

Damn commies....

[protipes]

Sem rád,že jsem mohl prožít část života ve slušné a spravedlivé socialistické společnosti.

[vlasolis]

@protipes Zase ale tu rudou v hlavě nepřetírej na růžovo.

[UDSS]

How many times do I hear the word ''communist''?

You can easy see that this is a pro-capitalist news station. Calling Czechoslovakia ''communist'' and telling that people wanted no ''communism''.

Sure the young people wanted freedom and a end to the stalinist lies. But unfortunately they equalled stalinism with communism. They believed the lies of right-wing democrats and voted for capitalism.

The communist party did not die. It reformed and is the fourth largest party.

[UDSS]

What would Lenin do if he was there in 1989? He would joined the workers and fought against the Stalinist government. Lenin would never supported the dictatorial regimes in eastern Europe. The media called eastern Europe communist, but that is a lie!

The workers were the force that crushed the Stalinist governments. Lenin would have been proud of those people, who stood up against he dictatorships of the nomeklatura. Capitalism only won because there were no workers parties to win elections.

[Bastiat90]

You really believe that don't you... how cute. The Stalinist state was already in place prior to 1924. The Cheka, the Gulag, the Red Terror etc. All instigated by Vladimir Ulyanov. Lenin despised the peasantry, and had he not sold his farm earlier than he did, they might have killed him. Lenin was a dictator. The only reason Stalin killed more people was because he lived longer.

[gregorikslavomir]

Milos Yakish :D:D:D:D:D:D lool jaky glupaci to prekladali :D sak to je Jakeš :D

[michalchik]

The is was a great step forward, now it is our turn. Join the 99%.

[Gmancrap]

Romania living under the twilight of communism. HAHAHAHA boy is this guy wrong!

[coralilyy]

what tv station broadcast this originally?

[Uzhorod]

Starý Veškrna se v tom videu už vidí v Lánech!

[hotello2009]

Nicht kauft bei Goldman sachs

[e0o9kii]

Why do we need English subtitles if this video is in English?

[KUBZ12345]

RED WHITE AND BLUE ;)

[sisyphus765]

... bare the humiliation any longer. The demonstrators in Libya expose their chests to the snipers. Long live democracy and individualism. China and Russia are next.

[sisyphus765]

People who have never experienced the oppression of totalitarianism and those who are too superficial to realise it will never understand the reason why there was a revolution in 1989 and why there are now revolutions in the middle east. The will for freedom is too powerful to be dismissed and too instinctive to be obliterated. You can only suppress it for a short time, but it is inevitable that the minds of the people will become frustrated beyond manipulation and they will rather die than bar

[losarchivos]

@AnarchoCommunist1 why homosexual? O.o you're weird

[igi1112]

2 fucking commies dont like this video :DDDD

[noogie123]

as we see both here and in the current situation in parts of the middle east, it is people power, and the youth in particular, who bring down tyrannical governments.

[garagecrap]

Velvet revolution bullshit. It was all setup by Komunists long before it happened. Do you really think they wouldn't stop the revolution if they wanted to?

[mooseit666]

@garagecrap oh, do you live there that you know that ? believe me, its not bullshit

[Hister333]

Don't forget "Velvet Revolution" was caused by "Velvet Underground." They never meant to do it, but they sang about not being able to be what your leaders decided you would be.

[Lloyidian]

3:12 haha, Milos YAKish, yeah, thats exactly what he was like!!!

[polkuauto55]

My country has never been a communist regime, so I can not imagine what it must have been the former Eastern bloc countries. I read the historical literature to better understand the role of the former communist countries. I'm happy that they are now free.

[gammyleg123]

@polkuauto55 theres that old saying "you dont understand freedom when your born free!!!" i love reading about communisum and i try to explain to my friends and they find it hard to believe!

[zabijakblbu]

It was just collapse of The Russian Empire and not collapse of Socialism. Particulary in Czechoslovakia people surely didn't want almost complete national economy, land ... sell-out including highly profitable companies, half milion enemployed, people freezing to death in tens a day, paid health services, paid education ... this is just the victory of another totalitarian system - Capitalism which ended all hopes for independent state many times with worse consequences for people on the bottom.

[1991bigsteve]

Fight the Power!!!!



[bubendo]

já jsem čech ajeto naprd když tady nepíše žádný čech když se to týká nás všech

osobně si o tým myslým že Havel je fakt borec když tomu režimu postavil

[MargueriteMordecay]

Proč to neni česky sakra??? :oDDD sem Čech, tak bych to uvítala v češtiině :oDDD

[Terkounek]

I love my country <3 :)

[mooseit666]

Today we have 21 years of democracy. Thanks to Vaclav Havel. He is really great Man.

[mdo7]

@mooseit666: I'm glad to hear that. Also, how are the people in your country reacting to the protest/uprising in Egypt and other arab countries. Does the current protest remind your people of 1989?

[mooseit666]

@mdo7 : yes, everything similar remind us our velvet revolution. its quite same, but not 100%. for example : in our comminism, you cant have your own business, you cant go to the west countries for vacation, if you are not in communist party, your childrens cant study ( my grandpa wasnt communist and we have forbidden to study just because of this) so in Egypt they can study, they can have their own business, they can go to the other countries all over the world.

we have fight for freedom, t..

[mooseit666]

@mooseit666 ....they are fighting just for their rights and government. and thats good.

I was in egypt in october 2009, and there was young man who can speak czech, because he were studying in Brno- Czech Republic. He told us (as i said 1,5year back) that they (he ment 90% of egyptians) doesnt want Mubarak or his son. He said that they Wants a man from OSN - Mr. M. Baradej for the president. and he told us, that he fears, their elections will not be free

[mdo7]

@mooseit666: The egyptian are fighting hard in the protest. I wish them luck. When I saw the 1989 revolution, it reminded me of what's going on in Egypt and the protest in the whole arab world. I bet a lot of people in Eastern Europe and your country are comparing what's going on in Egypt to the revolution in 1989.

[NomsiKage]

so beautiful :)

[mentorsi2]

Long live the velvet revolution! :)

[Swinger666]

Fuck Velvet Revolution...

[hotello2009]

@Danooshyk 1percent of these days !!!!

[ramen0505]

i'm from china and i'm going to visit prague very soon, i will definitely have a complicated mood when i visit those places where important events took place... =)

[qwercz1]

This is called power of speeches and power of poeple..! I am proud to be Czech, well, young one but proud anyway.. ;-)

[gunnlaugurolafsson]

A democracy cannot exist when property rights do not exist.

The fact is that property rights is the only thing that can keep a governmentfrom violating the right of the individual.

In a socialist system the rights of individuals may be sacrificed on the altar of the collective "need/want".

Ergo there cannot be democracy with socialism since democracy is not the same thing as the dictatorship of the majority.

[sietube2008]

wow today!

the velvet revolution came up to my head today, and see what I hound, it was today 20 years ago.

I am longing to visit charming town Praha for a long time and I thik my spirit reached Praha and remined me for the history... by the way, the guy who are running across Europe said he likes Czech, Prague the best and the people are the kindest.

[fiveoclockz]

Today is the anniversary.

Nov 17, 2009

20 years

[tblspn]

subtitles for US English - love it!

[Havirovcity]

The Gipsys allways knew how to handle the problems.Ceausescu was not enough.We all should kill all those motherfuckers with red flag in their hands.There is still alive many of those who killed innocent people.But you won't read about it in newspappers.The all victims will be never forgotten.

[SEFARAD2K4]

This was ridiculous. There were hardly protests! Havel et al promised to reform socialism but then restored capitalism in secret, making privatization public 6 months after selling people's property to foreign sh*t.

[Havirovcity]

You better keep your mouth shut.

[skankuser]

Socialism and Communism are two completely different concepts in the Twentieth Century contexts. For example, you can be a socialist and still retain that democracy is best.

[henrypollack]

Yeah, like the National Socialists of Germany?

[skankuser]

You can't judge a political party and its ideology based on name alone. Same thing with the Republican Party in the Czech Republic during the 1990s.

[animelubbor432]

there we go. socialism is bad only when people abuse their power.

[skankuser]

No, socialism is bad because it collectivizes what people earn and gives it to people who haven't earned it.

A strictly socialist system is a giant shithole.

[Myndir]

@animelubbor432 Politicians are almost always abusers of power. Any system that depends on saints being in charge is stupid system.

Czechs and Slovaks beat the communists in the end, because their spirits never died.

[gunnlaugurolafsson]

Socialism and democracy cannot coexist. Therefore socialism always becomes communism.

Ergo Socialism = Communism

[skankuser]

Then explain the SDP in Germany.

[Thuglordrpt]

i would disagree. Socialism is the only way for humankind to advance. Lenin, Stalin, moa and others created a communist dictatorship with the intent of building a powerful country rather than a prosperus people, they ruined its image.

True socialism is the one without dictatorship but run by the everyday people.

[mithwenarataur]

@dieguiguar Communism and socialism aren't the same thing though... Just saying...

[indigohiphop]

@mrfoose It's not about which political system you handle, is how you handle it. You should read some history. All political systems have failed so far.. since their very beginning. So If I were you I'd start to get ready for the big fall, the new world order fall, which will happen in this decade. Happy new year man.

[James89RL]

@mrfoose same here soviet power was shit!

[JackalSkull]

@mrfoose I bet you do nazi cunt