Richard Fidler
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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There was a gentleness to it and a sense of civic propriety.
The students were great.
I dedicated my book to the students.
There was a feeling of a new civility in the air at the time that was being reported during the Velvet Revolution.
People giving up their seats on public transport, people looking each other in the eyes.
And this is after decades of people not meeting each other in the eye.
This breakdown of trust.
There was this feeling that trust needs to be reestablished amongst us so we can live in a normal life, in a normal state.
There was never a promise of utopia here.
for all the joy that I felt during the revolution.
It was just this profound desire to live in a normal state, to live in a normal country with leaders that are fallible and can be called such in public without you being arrested.
So the fight against totalitarianism, the fight against autocracy, which is hugely relevant today, is a fight for self-respect and for courage.
People were wondering at that time how the regime would fall.
It seemed vast, monolithic, impenetrable, extremely well-armed, utterly ruthless, doctrinaire, and committed.
What will bring down a regime like that?
What is the thing that's going to do it?
And like I said in the end, Mark, it was the death of a fictional character.
The regime was brought down by the death of a fictional character.
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