Welcome to
The Velvet Revolution Diaries: 2009 relaunch
Thirteen
years after I made the original site with the translation of my 1989
diary,
I
decided to
bring it
back along with 2 other fascinating diaries on the 20th anniversary of
the Velvet Revolution without almost any
change to the original site. Dan
Franc
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The
Original
1996 introduction: Once upon a time, I was 16 years old.
Like many other
16-year olds around the world - or at least on its Northern Hemisphere
- I was at a high school. The only difference might be
that when I was 16,
the revolution in the Czech Republic took place. As a teen, I was thrown into something I
had
totally not experienced
before and ever since - and I felt the history was marching around in a
big time parade.
On this web, you can find a description of the event that started the
revolution and the first key days of it, as I had laid it on the
pages of my
diary that I
actually kept writing only during the revolution.
You can also find additional
resources and two more diaries here similar in feel ...
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1989
My Velvet Revolution Diary
>>>
(sample
pages, read full diary in English here)
Related New York
Times press from 1989
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Related
Philadelphia Inquirer press from 1989 >>>
My high-school revolutionary statement >>>
The
official communist propaganda piece / an "anti diary"
>>>
1990
The East-European post-revolution "summer of love"
when anything was possible... by a British observer
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1969
Anticommunist
riots in the eyes of an unwilling
American participant, who got into trouble
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© Dan Franc, 1996-2009 and respective authors.
The photos are courtesy of © Philadelphia Inquirer, New York
Times
and a Czech photographer Jan Sibik (www.sibik.cz)
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