Demonstrators During the Velvet RevolutionHundreds of thousands of Czechoslovakian citizens flooded the streets of Prague daily in peaceful protests after the police savagely beat student demonstrators in mid-November 1989. On the night of November 24, three hundred thousand people roared “Dubček” when Alexander Dubček, the aging reformer ousted in 1968 by the Soviets, stood on a balcony with Václav Havel, who had challenged the “bad government” of the Communist regime. Over the next several weeks, the Communists agreed to share power and then resigned from the government. (© Peter Turnley/CORBIS)