Czechs celebrate fall of communism 20 years ago

PRAGUE (AP) - Residents of the Czech Republic are commemorating the 20th anniversary of the end of communist rule.

By: Associated Press | WNCT-On Your Side
Published: November 17, 2009

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PRAGUE (AP) - Residents of the Czech Republic are commemorating the 20th anniversary of the end of communist rule.
They're celebrating with exhibitions, concerts, speeches and rallies. Thousands of people in the capital, Prague, plan to participate in a reenactment of a student protest. It was that protest that triggered the Velvet Revolution that peacefully toppled the communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia.
The man who became the country's first democratically elected president in 1989, Vaclav Havel raised the memory of those who helped overthrow the repressive regime, naming dozens including his late wife, Olga.
The Czech Republic currently finds itself in a political crisis, after the previous government was ousted in a parliamentary no-confidence vote.

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