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Tue 11 Nov 2009Remembering 20th anniversary of Velvet Revolution
Limerick felt exotic compared to rural Wicklow when I was growing up but then I went to Czechoslovakia, writes ELAINE BYRNE
THE FALL of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago symbolised the wider downfall of the Soviet sphere of influence and life irrevocably changed for the communist regimes of Eastern Europe. This day next week also marks the 20th anniversary of the sametová revoluce, the Velvet Revolution, so called because of the non-violent overthrow of the Czechoslovakia communist regime.
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