Velvet Revolution
November 17 – December 29, 1989
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Velvet Revolution
Peaceful mass protests that ended Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. The dissident playwright Václav Havel was elected president at the end of December 1989.
Location
- Wenceslas Square, Prague