Richard Fidler
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218 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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That very same year, just months earlier, would be to send in the army and shoot and fire into the crowd and break it up that way.
Vaclav Havel was very clever.
He could see this was a risk.
And in one of his speeches, he made a very careful speech to the leaders of the military.
He made it very clear that if the regime was going to do that, if the army was going to shoot, that afterwards, the military leaders would be held accountable.
They'd seen what had happened in East Germany and Hungary and Poland, and they would realise they were on a losing ticket.
It's that kind of moment.
And then you have this event on November 24th, which is, what, a week later after the student demonstration.
The opposition forces, Civic Forum, had taken over the Magic Lantern Theatre in Prague as their headquarters.
And they're doing a media conference and someone rushes in to say the entire Brazilian of the Communist Party has just resigned.
There's hugging and tears.
And within by December 29, you get President Havel.
This playwright, this friend of Frank Zappa's, is now the president of what had been a communist totalitarian dictatorship.
A thoroughly decent man and a theorist on how totalitarian systems work.
Now, when the Western media reported that this Martin Schmidt had been beaten to death by Red Berets, the regime came out and said, this never happened, there was no such thing as this person Martin Schmidt.
They found a couple of other Martin Schmidts who were perfectly alive and ready to talk on the camera, but they'd been telling lies for decades, and so no-one believed them.
Ludwig Zivchak said he'd been a young secret police officer with the STB.
And he had said he had been sent to infiltrate the student movement that night when they assembled on Bishop Rat Hill and to goad them into having that march into the city centre.
Now, I know the first question you're going to ask is, why does the regime's secret police want the students to march online?
What's going on here, right?
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