Prague-A City with a "Difficult" History

11-17-25 Today seemed to be the appropriate day to be posting our first Prague trip footprint as the Czech Republic marks the commemoration of November 17, 1989 (8 days after the fall of the Berlin Wall), the Velvet Revolution, that brought freedom & democracy back to Prague after 41 years of communism and showed the power of society to stand up and fight for what’s right. On that day, Prague students organized a peaceful march that would not end until half-million Czechs filled the streets and finally did successfully overthrow the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. In 1990, the country’s first open and free national elections were held.

Note: The students on November 17, 1989 were also celebrating that on that date 50 years earlier (1939) students who were protesting the Nazi occupation had been suppressed and subsequently, many universities closed for years and students sent to concentration camps. Sadly, in 1968, the communists took leadership of Czechoslovakia from Stalinists, with the people thinking it was “preferable”, but it just became more of an authoritarian communist regime until 1989.Read more