Karel Urbanek - communist party general secretary
A brutal police action against peaceful march of students in Prague on November 17, 1989, sparked the Velvet Revolution, a series of non-violent demonstrations that toppled the authoritarian Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Karel Urbanek, a puppet politician whom the communist party elected as its new general secretary, addresses citizens on Czechoslovak Television on November 25, 1989. CTK Photo/Jiri Krulis
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13800639
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45406752
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Credit
© CTK Photobank / Mary Evans
Source
KRULIS Jiri - CTK
