Author: William Ahrens

Czechoslovakia, 1989   November 17, 1989 Kafkadesk, “On this Day, in 1989: a student protest in Prague sparked the Velvet Revolution.”   On November 17, 1989, nearly 200,000 students marched on Wenceslas Square in Prague in a non-violent protest of

In February 1948, Czechoslovakia was Joseph Stalin’s next recruit for his Communist orchestra developing in the Eastern Bloc. The once democratically elected nation converted into a “People’s Democracy,” almost overnight. Reactionary forces, made up of Ministers of the Social Democratic