✦ History

Velvet Revolution

November 17 – December 29, 1989 · Wenceslas Square, Prague

Peaceful mass protests that ended Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. The dissident playwright Václav Havel was elected president at the end of December 1989.

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Key people

Václav Havel leader, Led Civic Forum and became president in December 1989 Alexander Dubček participant, Returned to public life and became chairman of the Federal Assembly

Participants

Strength and losses

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Wounded 500

Before and after

Led to
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia January 1, 1993

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