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![bársonyos forradalom Young Czechoslovak students shout 22 November 1989 in support of Vaclav Havel for presidency during protest rall](https://cdn.origo.hu/2023/12/4mxg0uyIMGvDoS8DgX21lur01AohER41oKiRAFV5uh8/fill/1347/758/no/1/aHR0cHM6Ly9jbXNjZG4uYXBwLmNvbnRlbnQucHJpdmF0ZS9jb250ZW50LzIzMDg0NDdlYzliZTQ3M2E4NTNhODk1MDY2MTE5MDNl.webp)
Young Czechoslovak students shout 22 November 1989 in support of Vaclav Havel for presidency during protest rally at Wenceslas Square in Prague. Czechoslovak students were asking for more democracy, demanding the end of Communist rule and free multiparty elections. A strong dissident protest movement led to the fall of communism 10 December and the formation of a non-Communist government in Czechoslovakia, 10 days after the beginning of a summit in Malta where Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US counterpart George Bush set a new era, ending the Cold War. The Communist Party capitulated (in the bloodless "Velvet Revolution") and formed a coalition government with the Civic Forum, and Havel was elected president 29 December 1989. AFP PHOTO LUBOMIR KOTEK