It should strengthen Czech democracy by keeping alive the ideals and circumstances under which the country was reborn in the Velvet Revolution.

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After the Velvet Revolution of 1989, he applied to a program that placed Eastern Europeans in American summer camps as counsellors, and spent the summer in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Prague recently witnessed the biggest demonstrations since the velvet revolution, in protest against the appointment of a state television director said to be too matey with Mr Klaus.

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But it is interesting to imagine Havel sitting in his theater dictating the peaceful Velvet Revolution had he possessed the sort of social networking and technology available today.

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