Thursday Flakes: The Velvet Revolution

500,000 people are in this pictureToday’s flakes is being written as I am making my way to Budapest. I figured it was fitting to spend my last day in Slovakia during a holiday on November 17th commemorating the start of the Velvet Revolution. A week after the Berlin Wall fell on November 10th, students gathered in Prague on November 17th to protest the communist regime and remember the 50th anniversary of a Nazi attack on Prague students that killed nine people. There were also protests in Bratislava the day before on November 16th but with no police intervention. That wasn’t the case in Prague as the police did get involved and tried to beat down some of the protesters. This only empowered more people around Czechoslovakia to go out and protest in every major city.

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