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• On November 24

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 507
  On this day in ... ... 1989 (20 years ago today) , the leadership of Czechoslovakia -- 2 dozen members of the Communist Party whod "called in the Soviet tanks in 1968 to crush the Prague Spring reformers," "resigned to make way for democratic changes," the BBC reported. The move came after the partys leader ...
  3 days ago

• Czech Tourist Map

  
  Yummy Fresh grain feed! — Authority: 621
  Beautiful tourist map from Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) dating back 1966. I love the bold colors and simple line work. I’m guessing that the illustration inside the red square on the left side is a beer. Look at that foamy top! Sweet mother of beverages! The inside of the map includes info on ...
  4 days ago

• Flower Child [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 817
  [Prague, November 17. Image via Getty ] A girl accompanies her mother as they march with thousands of Czech people through streets of Prague to commemoration the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 2009 in Prague. Thousands of Czech citizens followed the same route taken by student ...
  1 week ago

• Looking Back in anger

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 439
  The following essay has been cross-posted from Samizdata to here, by kind permission of the author. Ad riana Lukas It’s been twenty years since my firm belief in a better way of life was vindicated. 17th November was the beginning of the end of an era shaped by collectivism, brutality and industrialised ...
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• National Velvet [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 817
  [Prague, November 17. Image via Getty ] PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - NOVEMBER 17: A young woman standing among Czech flags joins people preparing to march in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. The marchers were following the same route ...
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• Vaclav Havel attacks Russia on anniversary of Velvet Revolution

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Vaclav Havel the dissident who led Czechoslovakias Velvet Revolution has used the 20th anniversary to warn Russia remains a threat despite the demise of the Soviet Union.
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• Explosive export

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 622
  20 years ago, on the eve of the Velvet Revolution, Communist Czechoslovakia churned out tractors, Skoda cars, and – Semtex. The lethal and highly portable plastic explosive is still being manufactured in the Czech Republic and only there. The BBC’s Tim Whewell went to the factory and explored the legacy of Semtex. ...
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• Czechs relive student protest on 20th anniversary of Velvet Revolution

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Thousands of Czechs retrace steps of a student demonstration that 20 years ago triggered the collapse of the communist state.
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• Velvet Revolution: 20 years

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 619
  A trailer for a CNN program. The square between 0:18 and 0:20 is our Pilsens Square of the Republic. Twenty years ago, I was a high school sophomore and a young dissident of a sort. With a few colleagues, we didnt join the Socialist Youth Union and created a small version of Charter 77 instead. We lived in a regime ...
  1 week ago

• Twenty years of freedom. And some people still miss the communist era

  
  The Czech Daily Word — Authority: 418
  Tomorrow is November 17, 2009 – the Czech Republic and Slovakia will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution , i.e. twenty years of freedom. (c) CTK News Agency Communism as a form of government is inherently totalitarian and the pre-1989 era had many signs of oppression and totalitarianism. ...
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• Amar Singh calls Raj Thackeray a Hitler

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) Equating Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray with Hitler, Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh Saturday said that “if this Hitler of linguistic parochialism is not stopped, he will swallow the forces who have created him”.He also said that his party would ...
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• Immigrants get 100,000 kroner Govt incentive to leave Denmark

  
  Quick Take - As It Happens — Authority: 123
  The Danish People’s Party (DF) has strengthened its immigration stance by securing an agreement to pay ‘anti-social’ foreigners 100,000 kroner to leave Denmark. Refugees and those who come to Denmark under family reunification schemes currently get 28,256 in repatriation support if they leave, of which 11,000 is ...
  2 weeks ago

• The root of it all

  
  2ndlook - View From A Square Prism — Authority: 389
  The principle of Cuius regio, eius religio provided for internal religious unity within a state: The religion of the prince became the religion of the state and all its inhabitants. Those inhabitants who could not conform to the prince’s religion were allowed to leave, an innovative idea in the 16th century; this ...
  2 weeks ago

• November 14 in history

  
  Homepaddock — Authority: 551
  On November 14: 1805   Fanny Mendelssohn , German composer and pianist, was born. 1840   Claude Monet , French painter, was born. 1878   Julie Manet , French painter, was born.   1889 Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) began a successful attempt to travel ...
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• Czechs Keep Alive Memories of Battle Over Ore Mountains on September 11, 1944

  
  Remembering World War Two Airmen — Authority: 120
  It never ceases to touch me deeply how Europeans are so much more linked to memories of the air war than Americans and to the extent people will go to preserve the memories of the men who flew the skies in World War Two. The latest example of this is found in the Czech Republic. I became acquainted with a pilot and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Peter Robinson talks to Václav Klaus

  
  The Reference Frame — Authority: 619
  Czech president Václav Klaus did another tour to the U.S. He has been to many places but here is the interview with Peter Robinson of Uncommon Knowledge (National Review Online): Part 1/5 (remembering fall of communism), Part 2/5 (similarities of EU and the Warsaw Pact), Part 3/5 (Al Gore is wrong on AGW), ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Velvet Revolution and how the Czech public perceives it today (Sametová revoluce a jak to dnes vidí česká veřejnost)

  
  CzechFolks.com — Authority: 112
  Článek v ČEŠTINĚ dole (Klikněte na “Read the rest …”) Readers of CzechFolks.com PLUS have been following a series on what foreign radios broadcasted in last weeks of the totalitarian regime and the early days of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia . As the recent surveys have shown, it was the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Berlin Wall Came Down, But Now The Washington Wall Goes Up

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 430
      This week marked the 20 th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is the anniversary of an event worthy to revisit and rethink. Of the dominoes that remained standing during the Cold War, the Berlin Wall’s fall, set in motion, the end of communism in Europe. And not slowly. Within days of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Report on Fall of Berlin Wall, Collapse of Iron Curtain

  
  CafeSentido.com — Authority: 503
  This video shows an ABC News report on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the process of reform and political change that rapidly swept across eastern Europe in the months surrounding that event. The report cites the efforts of mass movements of ordinary people to overthrow hardline totalitarian regimes through peaceful ...
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• Why the Berlin Wall Fell

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  In the debate over who deserves credit for causing the Berlin Wall to collapse on the night of November 9, 1989, many names come to mind, both great and small. There was Günter Schabowski, the muddled East German politburo spokesman, who in a live press conference that evening accidentally announced that the countrys ...
  2 weeks ago

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