The "Institute for Forecasting" provided the economic policy for this movement, which began with a public meeting on the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Jan Opletal.
Oxford historian Timothy Garton Ash predicted that this event would take just ten days. A year before it began, the Candle Demonstration for religious freedom presaged this movement's tactics. The "Institute for Forecasting" provided the economic policy for this movement, which began with a public meeting on the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Jan Opletal. It was organized in the dressing-rooms of the Magic Lantern theater and elevated the Civic Forum to power among waves of jangling keys. This event was followed four years later by a similarly-titled "divorce" that led to the establishment of an independent polity under Vladimir Meciar. For 10 points, Vaclav Havel came to power in what November 1989 event, the peaceful collapse of Communist rule in Czechoslovakia?
Oxford historian Timothy Garton Ash predicted that this event would take just ten days.
Velvet Revolution