Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:43:09 +0200“Několik vět” petition marked the final months of communism in Czechoslovakiahttps://english.radio.cz/nekolik-vet-petition-marked-final-months-communism-czechoslovakia-8583333© 2026 Radio Prague International In June 1989, a group of people around the dissident and future president, Václav Havel, put together a petition to the communist authorities asking them to stop oppressing freedom in the country. Over five months, more than 40,000 Czechs and Slovaks signed the Několik vět petition, fuelling the demise of communism in Czechoslovakia. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/nekolik_vet1.jpg?timestamp=1591329772 “Několik vět” petition marked the final months of communism in Czechoslovakia https://english.radio.cz/nekolik-vet-petition-marked-final-months-communism-czechoslovakia-8583333 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9