People will commemorate 17 November with gatherings, concerts, and ceremonies

People will commemorate the 36th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on Monday with a series of events, memorial ceremonies, and concerts in the capital and in the regions. The center of the celebrations will once again be Prague’s Národní třída, where state officials and political party representatives will arrive in the morning and forenoon. As tradition dictates, people will remember not only the fall of the totalitarian regime in 1989, but also the persecution of students during the Nazi occupation in 1939.