The exile who waited 20 years, three months and 16 days to come home
There were many times in the life of philanthropist Dr Jan Telensky that he thought he might never be able to return home.
Russia
Blue velvet of neigh-sayers and true velvet memories of our freedom days
George Orwell’s quote ‘all revolutions are failures’ has often been used on the anniversaries of the Velvet Revolution and the subsequent the fall of the Berlin Wall marking the collapse of the Soviet empire.
Around the world in 1989
List of the important events as they have happened around the world in 1989.
Why a foreigner stayed after stepping off bus into revolution
This is by Franklin Orosco who tells of his arrival in Slovakia in 1989…
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.