Demonstration in Prague - Eyewitness report

Title

Demonstration in Prague - Eyewitness report

Genre

Interview

TX Date

20 Nov 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:07

Description

Interview with Czech radio journalist, Ladislav Osivald(?) in Prague, where a hundred thousand Czechoslovakian students are demonstrating and demanding an end to communist rule in the biggest protest there for twenty years. Wenceslas Square in the city centre is packed with chanting demonstrators shouting, We don’t want violence, enough is enough. Female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Ladislav Osivald(?)

Keywords

Political marches; Political protests; Demonstrations; Communism; Students; Czechoslovakia; Schoolchildren; Prague

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