Protesters showed the pro-Russian president a symbolic ‘red card,’ symbolizing their desire for him to be thrown out of office.
When giving a speech commemorating a time of great national pride, it isn't often that a president has to be protected from hurled garbage. But that's what happened on Monday in the Czech Republic.
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Czech President Milos Zeman was delivering a speech marking the Velvet Revolution — the 1989 anti-communist uprising in Czechoslovakia — when protesters began slinging eggs, tomatoes, sandwiches, and other garbage at him.
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Here security guards use umbrellas to protect Zeman from the debris.
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Starting 25 years ago today, the start of the Velvet Revolution marked the non-violent change over from the old pro-Soviet regime after years of quiet disobedience. As other Communist governments teetered, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, students gathered to protest against the Czechoslovakian government and the Communist Party's 41 year-long rule.
After riot police suppressed the initial student-led protest, they were joined by older activists and others until the protests had swelled to include more than half a million people. The entire government resigned ten days later, clearing the path for the first democratic elections in decades the following June.
Thousands of Czechs turned out on Monday to protest Zeman, waving red cards to symbolize their desire to see him thrown out of office.
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