Sunday, November 17, 2019

30: Velvet Revolution

Velvet Revolution

(Prague 1989)


Date:  17 November 1989 – 29 December 1989  (1 month, 1 week and 5 days)

Location:  Czechoslovakia

Participants:  Czechs and Slovaks

Outcome:  Collapse of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia,   Restoration of parliamentary democracy,  Breakup of Czechoslovakia,   Integration of the Czech Republic and Slovakia into the EU and NATO,  Dismantling of the command economy and privatization of state-owned industry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution

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