National holiday of 17th November
17th of November is the day of National holiday in the Czech Republic. The day is officially celebrated as „The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day“ but it is also known as „The Day of students“. It is so because that day is in the Czech history connected with two very important students manifestations, during which the youth became the conscience of the nation.
When the communist rule over central-eastern Europe was already breaking down, student manifestation started so called Velvet Revolution, which led to Czechoslovakia freed of the deliberating communist regime.
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