Why a foreigner stayed after stepping off bus into revolution
This is by Franklin Orosco who tells of his arrival in Slovakia in 1989…
Russia
Noon in Poprad as tanks open fire and young Jozef Bonk died
The story of a young man who died almost two decades before freedom arrived.
Dubcek and the conspiracy theories surrounding a car crash in the rain
In some ways this man was the architect of peace before the gentle revolution… but his death for many leaves unanswered questions
‘Bells were ringing, the story was over…’ how, on a grey November day, the gentle revolution began
In 1989 on a grey November day, thousands of students gathered in the Czechoslovak capital, Prague, to recognise International Students’ Day.