{"id":25832,"date":"2024-11-20T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/?p=25832"},"modified":"2024-12-17T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:40:14","slug":"roma-and-the-velvet-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/roma-and-the-velvet-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Roma and the Velvet Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On November 25, 1989, Emil \u0160\u010duka and Jan Rusenko spoke to a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Letn\u00e1 in Prague. They also reached most households through television cameras. At the same time, a Roma group unfurled the Roma flag on the Letne plain, and a huge crowd chanted &#8220;Long live the Roma&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to that, Czech Roma dissidents were practically inexistant. The only notable exception was Karel Holomek, a signatory of the Movement for Civil Liberties (HOS), established in 1988. Holomek, expelled from the military college after 1968 and expelled from the Communist Party of the Czech Republic, was detained and interrogated as early as 1981 for &#8220;subversion of the republic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Romov\u00e9 a Sametov\u00e1 revoluce v roce 1989. \u201eA\u0165 \u017eij\u00ed Romov\u00e9\u201c skandovalo 800 tis\u00edc lid\u00ed na Letn\u00e9. In: Romea. 17.11.2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/romea.cz\/cz\/domaci\/romove-a-sametova-revoluce-v-roce-1989-at-ziji-romove-skandovalo-800-tisic-lidi-na-letne-3\">https:\/\/romea.cz\/cz\/domaci\/romove-a-sametova-revoluce-v-roce-1989-at-ziji-romove-skandovalo-800-tisic-lidi-na-letne-3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 25, 1989, Emil \u0160\u010duka and Jan Rusenko spoke to a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Letn\u00e1 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scuka-rusenko-color.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602,14],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-25832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-czech","category-news-eastern-europe","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/scuka-rusenko-color.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25834,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25832\/revisions\/25834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}