On November 17, 1989, nine days after the fall of the Berlin Wall roughly 200 miles to the north, students gather ‘en masse’ in Prague, Czechoslovakia to protest the communist regime. The demonstration sets off what will become known as the Velvet Revolution, the non-violent toppling of the Czechoslovak government and one of a series of anti-communist revolutions that marked the late 1980s and early ’90s.
Content like this is why I joined r/czech. I really like how something what I would vaguely describe as freedom culture is praised here.
Mrdat komouše!
While it certainly was an amazing achievement – the best we could ever wish for, it also marked the end of our “self-sufficiency” I guess. After communism fell, our economy began globalising like anywhere else in the world, which is quite sad in my opinion, even though it also has its benefits. For example the vehicles, you could see Czech developed and manufactured Karosa 700 series buses (Karosa is just one of Iveco’s factories making Iveco buses now), Tatra and Avia trucks (the former barely existing now with the latter shutting down 2 years ago), Czech and polish built OT64 army transporter (now replaced with Austrian shitty Pandurs), CKD Tatra trams (their company was bought by Siemens and later closed down), obviously Škoda cars too, all the clothing that the people wore was all made here. It’s sad that the era of our industry which was one of the best, most developed and oldest in the world is behind us, and nowadays we’re just another typical eastern European undeveloped country.
An interesting video. As a participant of the 1988 and 89 demonstrations, it brought me memories of that era. It is also entertaining to see a demonstration for communism by elderly People’s militia held in Ostrava and pledging to defend the regime to the end…
I was 9 then, just left the country, in the process of immigration in Yugoslavia. This video hits home, the cars, the music, for me.. the unknown, nostalgia, sadness. Now I have a family of my own in Canada and am grateful for my parents’ gamble at a better life.
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On November 17, 1989, nine days after the fall of the Berlin Wall roughly 200 miles to the north, students gather ‘en masse’ in Prague, Czechoslovakia to protest the communist regime. The demonstration sets off what will become known as the Velvet Revolution, the non-violent toppling of the Czechoslovak government and one of a series of anti-communist revolutions that marked the late 1980s and early ’90s.
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Content like this is why I joined r/czech. I really like how something what I would vaguely describe as freedom culture is praised here.
Mrdat komouše!
While it certainly was an amazing achievement – the best we could ever wish for, it also marked the end of our “self-sufficiency” I guess. After communism fell, our economy began globalising like anywhere else in the world, which is quite sad in my opinion, even though it also has its benefits. For example the vehicles, you could see Czech developed and manufactured Karosa 700 series buses (Karosa is just one of Iveco’s factories making Iveco buses now), Tatra and Avia trucks (the former barely existing now with the latter shutting down 2 years ago), Czech and polish built OT64 army transporter (now replaced with Austrian shitty Pandurs), CKD Tatra trams (their company was bought by Siemens and later closed down), obviously Škoda cars too, all the clothing that the people wore was all made here. It’s sad that the era of our industry which was one of the best, most developed and oldest in the world is behind us, and nowadays we’re just another typical eastern European undeveloped country.
An interesting video. As a participant of the 1988 and 89 demonstrations, it brought me memories of that era. It is also entertaining to see a demonstration for communism by elderly People’s militia held in Ostrava and pledging to defend the regime to the end…
I was 9 then, just left the country, in the process of immigration in Yugoslavia. This video hits home, the cars, the music, for me.. the unknown, nostalgia, sadness. Now I have a family of my own in Canada and am grateful for my parents’ gamble at a better life.