Revolution Po Po

On November 17th 1989, a peaceful student demonstration in Prague was severely beaten back by the riot police. That event sparked a set of popular demonstrations from November 19th to late December. Only by November 20th the number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague had swelled from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. This was the first political revolution that was bloodless, therefore the name came to be The Velvet Revolution. These are just a few images that I find extremely powerful. Its incrediable how such a peaceful demonstration affected such a long, on-going political power in such a huge way. The stand of the non-believers...


The velvet revolution of 1989.