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Postcards from the Transition

Postcards from the Transition.

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Tag: Velvet Revolution

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30 Years Ago This Week

June 5, 2020June 14, 2020 Rich McClear

June 6, 2020 Thirty years ago, this week we were in the Czechoslovakia. We were there because in 1989 we took our kids to Berlin to see the wall. Two and a half months later it came down.  In 1990 … Continue reading 30 Years Ago This Week

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Velvet Revolution, 10 years later

February 27, 1999July 29, 2015 Rich McClear

  In 1999 we lived in Bratislava, Slovakia, working in media development for IREX-ProMedia.  Prague was just a 3 hour drive from our home. February 27, 1999 Bratislava, Slovakia This week we drove to Prague to represent ProMedia at an … Continue reading Velvet Revolution, 10 years later

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Velvet Revolution

June 11, 1990August 6, 2023 Rich McClear

I wrote this letter in June 1990.  I started writing it on a yellow legal pad on the evening of June 9, 1990, filling in what went before and finishing it in Sitka. Wednesday, June 6, 1990 Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia … Continue reading Velvet Revolution

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