A brutal police action against peaceful march of students in Prague on November 17, 1989, sparked the Velvet Revolution, a series of demonstrations that toppled the authoritarian Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. The number of participants in the regular anti-government demonstration at Letna plain in Prague reached an estimated 800,000 people on November 25 and 26, 1989.
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