The Revolutions of 1989 continue: The day after his first public address since being sacked two decades previous, Alexander Dubcek, former First Secretary of the Presidium of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, addresses a crowd of more than 300,000 in Prague’s Wenceslas Square. 

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CHRONOLOGY-Communism’s fall around eastern Europe – Reuters
www.reuters.com/article/idUSL10690064

Fall of the Berlin Wall: Timeline of a year of wonder, when the unthinkable became the unstoppable | The Independent
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/fall-of-the-berlin-wall-timeline-of-a-year-of-wonder-when-the-unthinkable-became-the-unstoppable-9821984.html

Revolutions of 1989 – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989

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