Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:06:03 +0200https://english.radio.cz/charter-77-marks-30th-anniversary-8612902© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalThirty years ago a handful of people met in a flat in Prague to discuss the communist regime's failure to observe fundamental human rights. What grew out of that meeting was to become the first dissident movement in the Soviet bloc, a movement which played a key role in bringing about the end of totalitarian communism in Czechoslovakia. And, perhaps typically for a country that seems to produce more than its fair share of oddities and idiosyncracies, it all began with a psychedelic rock band.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/plastic_people1_1.jpg?timestamp=1591430666 https://english.radio.cz/charter-77-marks-30th-anniversary-8612902 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9