Alexander Dubcek - Vaclav Havel - Civic Forum

Following a brutal police crackdown on peaceful march of students late November 17, prominent members of Charter 77 and other dissident organizations, students and actors established the Civic Forum as a mass popular movement for reforms in Prague on November 19, 1989. Vaclav Havel embraces Alexander Dubcek at the Civic Forum press conference after learning that top Communist party leaders resigned from their posts on November 24, 1989. CTK Photo/Petr Mazanec

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