DPP #9169 at Podbaba, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #5525 at Radlicka, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #5525 at Radlicka, Picture 2, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #5525 at Radlicka, Picture 3, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #5525 at Radlicka, Picture 4, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #5525 at Radlicka, Picture 5, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #5525 at Radlicka, Picture 6, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #9165 at Podbaba, Picture 2, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #9014 at Vitezne Namesti, Prague, CZ, 2009
Class 111 in Praha Hlavni Nadrazi, Prague, CZ, 200…
Nadrazi Praha-Vysehrad, Prague, CZ, 2009
World War I Memorial in Jince, Bohemia (CZ), 2009
Nadrazi Horovice, Horovice, Bohemia (CZ), 2009
View From Zeleznicni Most, Prague, CZ, 2009
Nadrazi Horovice, Picture 3, Horovice, Bohemia (CZ…
Nadrazi Horovice, Picture 4, Horovice, Bohemia (CZ…
Nadrazi Horovice, Picture 5, Horovice, Bohemia (CZ…
Express Pan at Horovice, Bohemia (CZ), 2009
Old Roundhouse, Zdice, Bohemia (CZ), 2009
CD Class 130 in Beroun, Bohemia (CZ), 2009
Nadrazi Horovice, Picture 2, Horovice, Bohemia (CZ…
DPP #9030 at Vitezne Namesti, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #9132 at Vitezne Namesti, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #9095 Approaching Narodni Trida, Prague, CZ, 2…
BR Ticket in Dejvicka Metro, Prague, CZ, 2009
BR Ticket in Dejvicka Metro, Picture 2, Prague, CZ…
Building With Clock In Haje From The Rear, Prague,…
Fall Colors in Kunraticky Les, Prague, CZ, 2009
Kunraticky Les Sign, Prague, CZ, 2009
Cycle Route Sign in Kunraticky Les, Prague, CZ, 20…
DPP #9170 at Podbaba, Prague, CZ, 2009
CSD #E6691129 Numberplate in the Vagon Kafe, Pragu…
CSD #E458004? Numberplate in the Vagon Kafe, Pragu…
Vagon Cafe Menu, Prague, CZ, 2009
Vagon Kafe, Prague, CZ, 2009
Shoes On Wire On Letna, Prague, CZ, 2009
Malostranska Metro Station, Prague, CZ, 2009
New Platform Looking North, Nadrazi Cercany, Cerca…
New Platform Looking South, Nadrazi Cercany, Cerca…
CD #714021-3 at Nadrazi Cercany, Picture 2, Cercan…
Blacksmith at Mustek, Vaclavske Namesti, Prague, C…
Veleslavin Crossing, Veleslavin, Prague, CZ, 2009
Hand Pump in Betlemske Namesti, Prague, CZ, 2009
New Track Construction at Nadrazi Cercany, Cercany…
Hand Pump in Betlemske Namesti, Picture 2, B&W Ver…
Hand Pump in Betlemske Namesti, Picture 2, Prague,…
CD #714021-3 at Nadrazi Cercany, Cercany, Bohemia…
Nadrazi Cercany Renovation, Cercany, Bohemia (CZ),…
U Halanku Pivovar, Betlemske Namesti, Prague, CZ,…
Corner of Betlemske Namesti, Prague, CZ, 2009
Work Train at Hostivar, Prague, CZ, 2009
CD Class 130 Electric With Autoracks at Hostivar,…
CD Class 130 Electric With Autoracks at Hostivar,…
CD Class 130 Electric With Autoracks at Hostivar,…
New Track at Nadrazi Cercany, Cercany, Bohemia (CZ…
New Digital Platform Trainboard at Nadrazi Cercany…
New Station Building at Nadrazi Cercany, Cercany,…
CD #363117-3 at Nadrazi Cercany, Cercany, Bohemia…
Den bez Aut WCN Demo, Namesti Miru, Prague, CZ, 20…
Funny Wheel Clamp, Vaclavske Namesti, Prague, CZ,…
KB Livery On C-Line Metro Train, Haje, Prague, CZ,…
View From Opatov Metro, Opatov, Prague, CZ, 2009
Pond at Krc, Prague, CZ, 2009
My Bike at U Shreka, Prague, CZ, 2009
Idiot Parking, Example 8, Prague, CZ, 2009
Idiot Parking, Example 7, Prague, CZ, 2009
Idiot Parking, Example 6, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #9111 at Podbaba, Prague, CZ, 2009
Food Court in Novy Smichov, Prague, CZ, 2009
Masinka Van, Andel, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #8234 with 6909 and 7021 at Radlicka, Prague,…
DPP #6909 at Radlicka, Picture 3, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #6909 at Radlicka, Picture 2, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #6909 at Radlicka, Prague, CZ, 2009
World War II Memorial Service in Dejvicka, Picture…
World War II Memorial Service In Dejvicka, Prague,…
CD #914024-5 at Hradec Kralove Hlavni Nadrazi, Hra…
Radnice and Cathedral, Hradec Kralove, Kralovehrad…
Statue on Muzeum vychodnich Cech, Hradec Kralove,…
Muzeum vychodnich Cech, Hradec Kralove, Kralovehra…
Rebuilt Brewery, Hradec Kralove, Kralovehradecky K…
Idiot Parking, Example 1, Prague, CZ, 2009
Idiot Parking, Example 2, Prague, CZ, 2009
Idiot Parking, Example 4, Prague, CZ, 2009
CD #371015-9 arriving at Nadrazi Holesovice at Dus…
Last Russian Prague Metro Train, Radlicka, Prague,…
United Islands of Prague Tram Stop, Most Legii, Pr…
United Heads at the United Islands of Prague Festi…
Idiot Parking, Example 5, Prague, CZ, 2009
Framus Five at the United Islands of Prague Festiv…
Modernist Architecture In Zizkov, Prague, CZ, 2009
Idiot Parking, Example 3, Prague, CZ, 2009
Kavarna Adria Interior, Prague, CZ, 2009
Memorial in Radlicka, Prague, CZ, 2009
Storm Clouds Over Sidliste Haje, Prague, CZ, 2009
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Podbaba, Prague, CZ, 2009
Narrow Building On Vaclavske Namesti, Prague, CZ,…
CD #363079-5 at Cercany, Bohemia (CZ), 2009
DPP #7184 at Malostranska, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #8259 at Podbaba, Picture 2, Prague, CZ, 2009
Doprava #740865-1 at Cercany, Bohemia (CZ), 2009
DPP #7065 Pan on Narodni Trida, Prague, CZ, 2009
Ship Mosaic in Palac Adria, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #8179 at Podbaba, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #7114 at I.P. Pavlova, Prague, CZ, 2009
CD #111011-3 at Praha Hlavni Nadrazi, Prague, CZ,…
DPP #7103 at U Kastanu, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #8253 at Kralovsky Letohradek, Prague, CZ, 200…
DPP #9153 Waiting For Jecna To Clear, Prague, CZ,…
Trams Backed Up On Jecna, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #8685 Stuck on Jecna, Prague, CZ, 2009
Ex-CSD #354195 at Nadrazi Dejvice, Picture 3, Dejv…
Ex-CSD #354195 at Nadrazi Dejvice, Picture 2, Dejv…
ex-CSD #354.195 at Nadrazi Dejvice, Dejvice, Pragu…
Volga Taxi in Hradcanska, Prague, CZ, 2009
Schedule with CD train #Sp1932 "F. A. Gerstner," C…
Nadrazi Cercany Platform Construction, Cercany, Bo…
Vaclavske Namesti at Dusk, Prague, CZ, 2009
Skoda 100 Front, Prague, CZ, 2009
DPP #8258 at Brevnovsky Klaster, Prague, CZ, 2009
Skoda 100 Deluxe, Prague, CZ, 2009
Skoda 100 Rear, Prague, CZ, 2009
Brevnovsky Klaster, Picture 7, Prague, CZ, 2009
Brevnovsky Klaster, Picture 6, Prague, CZ, 2009
Brevnovsky Klaster, Picture 5, Prague, CZ, 2009
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November 17th, 1989 Memorial, Prague, CZ, 2009
Next to the Moebius Mural is the famous November 17th, or Velvet Revolution memorial, commemorating the sufferings and deaths of the dissidents who brought the Communist system down. It's located in an arcade through the front of a building on Narodni Trida, where it was said a student was murdered by police on November 17th, 1989. To this day, this has never been confirmed, and amazingly the most common explanation was that the StB (secret police) circulated the rumour in order to escalate the violence and hence justify disproportionate retaliation. If this is true, they failed spectacularly, as the enormous demonstrations and general strike which followed brought down the regime, with the police, largely sympathetic to the revolution, refused to fire a shot. Czechs call the incident in Narodni Trida a "massacre," even though there was only the one rumoured fatality, and the rest of the violence involved the police feebly clubbing protestors, who took a long time to disperse. Historian Howard Zinn calls the phenomenon of willful police inaction/ineffectiveness during the Velvet Revolution (and the other 1989 European anti-Communist revolutions) "The Revolt of the Guards," and many credit this principle with allowing the revolution to go ahead, as only five months earlier, Chinese soldiers and police put an end to pro-Democracy protests with a "real" massacre of 400-10,000 people, the very uncertainty of the numbers saying as much about the regime as anything, with such figures being a closely-guarded secret.
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