One group that was formed in response to this event eventually splintered off into another group called HZDS and later changed its name to the Civic Democratic Union.
One group that was formed in response to this event eventually splintered off into another group called HZDS and later changed its name to the Civic Democratic Union. Â That group was the Public Against Violence, which was analogous to another country's Civic Forum and this event would be immortalized on 2-Euro coin by a set of jingling keys. The actions of an undercover StB agent during this event may have helped to gain steam by falsifying the death of Martin Smid. The event began on International (*) Students Day and marked the 50th anniversary of the death of a student at the hands of the Nazis. Much of this event was fomented by actors in theaters and it received support from the likes of Cardinal Frantisek Tomasek and members of Charter 77 including Vaclav Havel. Occurring a week after the fall of the Berlin Wall, for ten points, name this 1989 bloodless revolution that led to democratic elections in Czechoslovakia.
One group that was formed in response to this event eventually splintered off into another group called HZDS and later changed its name to the Civic Democratic Union.
Velvet Revolution [do not accept Velvet Divorce]