During an astonishing 6-week period in 1989, between November 17th and December 29th, a non-violent Velvet Revolution took place in Communist Czechoslovakia. It overthrew the 44 year old Soviet backed regime put in place by Josef Stalin at the end of World War II, and replaced it with a free democracy. It was nicknamed theContinue reading “The 1989 Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia”
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Podcast: The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
By 1961, the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union raged unchecked around the globe. Since World War II, it seemed the entire world had chosen sides. The fortified ‘Iron Curtain‘ had been raised – borders dividing Western & Eastern Europe along Democratic vs. Communist lines. Berlin however, though divided as well, stillContinue reading “Podcast: The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall”