History by People

On this day in 1989, November 24, in Prague, the entire top leadership of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia resigned.

The causes and events leading to that resignation are many; but among them are an extremely large peaceful, popular uprising.

Four days earlier, on November 20, a crowd of of 200,000 protesting Czechs had swelled to 500,000. In that high-energy environment, a bold, freedom-loving playwright, soon-to-become President, Vaclav Havel, addressed the crowd, while standing on this balcony:

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