Vaclav Havel - Ladislav Adamec - Civic Forum
Following a brutal police crackdown on peaceful march of students on November 17, 1989, prominent members of Charter 77 and other dissident organizations, students and actors established the Civic Forum as a mass popular movement for reforms. Vaclav Havel, left, and Communist premier Ladislav Adamec, second from right, at the meeting of the Civic Forum and government officials in Prague on November 26, 1989. CTK Photo/Libor Hajsky Vaclav Havel, left, during the meeting of Civic Forum and Czechoslovakia government in Prague, Czechoslovakia on Nov. 28, 1989. The events of November 1989 started by the brutal supression of student demonstratorwhich led to the fall of the government and effectively ended Communism in Czechoslovakia. (CTK photo/Libor Hajsky)
