Thousands in Slovakia and Czech Republic rally against leaders on Velvet Revolution anniversary

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00:00On Monday, protesters in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

00:05marked the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution by demonstrating against their governments.

00:11The Velvet Revolution in 1989 brought an end to decades of communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia,

00:18which was then split into two nations in 1993.

00:22The Czech Republic and Slovakia then both joined the European Union and NATO,

00:27but many now worry its pro-European values are under threat.

00:33In Slovakia's Bratislava, tens of thousands of people protested against populist prime minister Robert Fico

00:40in his pro-Russian stance. Rallies and marches also took place in other cities.

00:46It's a lot of rain, and it's cold, but it shows that people depend on freedom,

00:52that they depend on democracy and that they don't let them take.

00:55Meanwhile, in the Czech Republic, demonstrators protested against the recent formation of the government.

01:01We will say that we protest against the free vote, but that's not the truth.

01:07We don't protest against the vote. We just want respect to the basic democratic principles.

01:13Billionaire businessman Andrej Babiš won the parliamentary elections in October,

01:18but his populist party ANO fell short of a majority.

01:22Babiš recently signed a coalition deal with right-wing allies,

01:26including with a party that is against the EU and NATO.

01:29Billionaire businessman Andrej Babiš

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