FILE PHOTO:A brutal police action against peaceful march of students in Prague on November 17, 1989, sparked the Velvet Revolution, a series of demonstrations that toppled the authoritarian Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Vaclav Havel addresses people during a demonstration at Letna plain in Pra
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FILE PHOTO:A brutal police action against peaceful march of students in Prague on November 17, 1989, sparked the Velvet Revolution, a series of demonstrations that toppled the authoritarian Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Vaclav Havel addresses people during a demonstration at Letna plain in Prague on November 25, 1989. The number of participants reached an estimated 800, 000 people on November 25 and 26.Vaclav Havel died on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, aged 75. Havel, a dissident playwright jailed by Communists, became Czechoslovak and than Czech president and a symbol of peace and freedom after bringing down communism in Czechoslovakia by leading bloodless "Velvet Revolution". CTK Photo