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Student Demonstration

Czech Republic · Politics / Velvet Revolution. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1989

Martin Smid17 November 1989

Prague · Politics / Velvet Revolution

Police suppression of a student march triggers mass protest.

Names involved

Martin Smid

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