Thousands of people across the Czech Republic and Slovakia marked the anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution with large protests defending democratic values. Demonstrators in Bratislava rallied against what they view as democratic backsliding and pro-Russian policies under Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Crowds warned that political pressure on media, weakened anti-corruption oversight, and shifts in foreign policy risk undermining the democratic principles the Velvet Revolution stood for.
01:58I hope that the result will be a sign of the vlade that we will not let go to our freedom and that democracy, freedom, everything that 17. november symbolizes today is the same as before.
02:14I would say that we will be a sign of the jednotes as a opposition to change the vlade.
02:28I've lost the story of the totality of the nuclear weapons, the freedom of the censure under the gun of Russian tanks.
02:42And the 17. november is the fact that this will never happen.
02:49Stop!
02:53And from you, students and students, I don't want heroism.
02:57It's just that you don't have to be quiet.
02:59And that you don't have to admit that you are young and powerless.
03:03The change is not in the parliament, but in the heads of people,
03:06who are willing to strike the keys and write the car in front of the government.
03:10So don't be quiet!
03:19When you're hearing the war, I'd be on the right set of slats
03:21and a human being so weak.
03:22That's why I heard it.
03:23So don't be quiet!
03:24We're busy here.
03:25We're busy here.
03:26We're busy here.
03:27We're busy here, but we're busy here.
03:29But, important is positive.
03:30We've had a great day.
03:31We're busy here at the same time in the past,
03:32the best you can get to be here.
03:33And we're busy here, and basically,
03:34the souvent that we've been to get to the nations.
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