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???????? The events of November 17, 1989 began as a reminder of the sad 50th anniversary of the Nazi will. In the fall of 1939, the occupiers faced several anti-regime demonstrations, during which the medical student Jan Opletal and the worker Václav Sedláček died. This was followed by cruel repression and the closing of universities. In November 1989, students planned a peaceful commemoration of the 50-year-old event. But its brutal suppression on Prague's Národní třída eventually led to the so-called Velvet Revolution, thanks to which the totalitarian communist regime in Czechoslovakia fell.