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Wed 11 Nov 2009How a death that wasn't led to demise of Czech communism
FALL OF THE WALL:WHEN THE Berlin Wall was finally breached on November 9th, 1989, Jan Bubenik was a sport- and party-loving student 350km away in Prague, writes DANIEL MCLAUGHLINIn Prague
Exactly seven weeks later, he would become the youngest member of Czechoslovakia’s new reformist parliament, and the next day he would help elect dissident playwright Václav Havel as his country’s president.
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