Voices of the Velvet Revolution

VOICES OF THE VELVET REVOLUTION
PRAGUE, AUTUMN 1989
It was a dangerous time and the atmosphere was different from the very beginning. These students seemed not to be afraid of anything.

They stood on each others shoulders and pulled down the red communist flags. They beat them , cracked skulls, broken arm they stood up with bloodied hands, holding out flowers saying We will not fight you back, we will not base our future on violence.

These events signaled a deep power emerging.It called forth a profound determination not based on fear. not based on violence. They had found hope, found their voice after forty years of oppression. It would not be silenced

Three hundred thousand people came to the Square.... You could taste the fear They took out keys and started ringing them, three hundred thousand resonating this melodious protest. It is known as the last ringing. Three hours later the communist party stepped down from power and Vaclav Havel, the playwright ushered in the new democracy.

A country brutalized years of oppression

They find their voice, a voice that echoed freedom.

A remarkable and historical event, the Velvet Revolution took place in 1989 in Czechoslovakia. At the same time coming out of her own chaos, after years in a brutal relationship, a divorced single mom and her young daughter strike out to find their freedom and are witness to events that created the Velvet Revolution in 1989 Czechoslovakia. They started Project Booklift to help the new democracy get on their feet. The new Foreign Minister, Jiri Dientsbier said it was the first sign the outside world cared. This is their story with the backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Project Booklift gained international attention, books came in first by the hundred and then the by the tons with inscriptions from the American People to the heroes of the Velvet Revolution. One from Edward Albee: To my friends in Czechoslovakia; brave, persistent, ingenious, stubborn, and altogether splendid." - Edward Albee 1991. "Sign with admiration and deep affection."
By helping the new democracy, they found their own soulful voice, their own freedom and healing. Coined The Velvet Revolution because of purposeful peaceful nature, the revolution was led by the playwright Vaclav Havel, who 10 years earlier had written the Power of the Powerless urging his people to live in truth and by doing this could successfully overturn a totalitarian regime. Vaclav Havel became the playwright president in 1989. And the Czechoslovakians, heroes to the world.

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• VELVET
• REVOLUTION
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[SEFARAD2K4]

Napajedlacek, you are right! There were also many traitors from Germany, Sudeten Germans, Americans, sent to cause damage and sabotage.

[napajedlacek]

Iam Czech .Students were usefull idiots...they were used......everything coordinated by CIA/KGB...