A quarter of a century on, the roots of Czech's peaceful evolution are still holding strong.
THE Velvet Revolution is one of my favourite moments in political history. I was transfixed by the rapid transformation of Czechoslovakia from a lifeless police state under Gustav Husak into the vibrant democracies of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The lessons of the bloodless move from dictatorship to democracy has lessons for many parts of the world.
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