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[Reportage] 1989 Soft revolution in Czechoslovakia

Demonstration on Letna Square (© NGV)
Demonstration on Letna Square (© NGV)

(Archives B2 in Prague) November 1989, among the cracks on the other side of the wall, those of Prague and Bratislava are symptomatic of a system that was rotten from the inside, so sudden was the fall of the regime... J I was lucky enough to be able to leave to be there, at the end of November, for the Paris Daily and Parisian radio stations, to be able to count on the spot friends who immediately introduced me to the movement and the student boiling, and plugged into "related" subjects: students, ecological concerns, Slovak separatism already very present and prelude of the subsequent separation...

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Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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