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6 unusual facts about Velvet Revolution


Černý Most

The second section, sídliště Černý Most II, was started in 1985 under the communist state, but completed in 1992 after the Velvet Revolution.

CZ-805 BREN

Shortly after that time however, the Cold War was ending and Czechoslovakia's communist party had stepped down following the Velvet Revolution.

Devín

The border fortifications were dismantled after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, and there is now free access to the riverbank.

Sihoť

Access to the island remained forbidden even after the end of communism and today, access is highly restricted.

Smíchov

The monument was removed shortly after the Velvet Revolution and a new glass-and-steel building designed by French architect Jean Nouvel became a symbol of the district.

Tomáš Poštulka

In 1997 Sparta Prague bought back their goalkeeper to win 5 championships in a row and to be the part of the most successful period in Sparta's post-revolution history.


Bolechovice

The Bolechovice castle has been occupied up to and after the Velvet Revolution by the family of the well-known painter Jan Souček, and is currently registered to his wife Emilie Součková along with Dr, Milan Kalina who is managing editor of Prague's Jewish community journal, Obecní noviny and Bejt Simcha's magazine, Maskilu.

D. A. Blyler

Described by the Midwest Book Review as a generation of "thirty-somethings who have fallen through the cracks of parental, academic, and worldly expectations," this group is given voice in Blyler's debut novel, Steffi's Club, set in the subterranean streets of Plzeň, Czech Republic, several years after the Velvet Revolution and the fall of Communism.

Glen Oglaza

During his ten years at ITN, he was the only reporter to have covered the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and the fall of Ceaucescu in Romania.

Statue of Lenin, Seattle

Venkov's work was completed and installed in Poprad, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), in 1988, shortly before the fall of Czechoslovak communism during the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The second Czech edition was published in October 2006, in Brno, Czech Republic, some eighteen years after the Velvet Revolution, because Kundera did not approve it earlier.


see also

Natálie Kocábová discography

Shortly before launching her debut set, she was given a credit as a co-writer on a track entitled "Some People" that appeared on album Velvet Revolution (1999), associated with Michael Kocáb, Petr Kolář and Tomáš Kympl.