Twenty years ago this Friday, waves of Czechoslovak factory workers marched into Prague to join student protesters in the nationwide general strike that brought down Communist rule. A generation later, persistent unemployment and a growing distrust of the political class has taken some of the gloss off the Velvet Revolution.
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