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People hold mobile phones with flashlights during a rally to celebrate the 36th anniversary of the pro-democratic Velvet Revolution, in Bratislava, Slovakia, Nov. 17, 2025.

Video. Czechs and Slovaks rally against leaders on Velvet Revolution day

Updated: 18/11/2025 - 14:23 GMT+1

The Velvet Revolution in 1989 brought an end to decades of Soviet-dominated communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia, which peacefully split into two nations in 1993.

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