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Vintage Czech Civil Forum OF Democracy Vaclav Havel Pin Badge
Vintage Czech Civil Forum OF Democracy Vaclav Havel Pin Badge
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- A beautiful, smiling face OF logo badge 1.5cm wide, made of a silver coloured metal and with a long, stick pin style fastener to the rear.
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This pin has a plastic sticker attached to a plain silver pin badge and was probably made by students in the run up to the revolution.
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In 1989 Czechoslovakia staged a revolution against the communist government, the OF was a political group made up of all parties opposed to the totalitarian regime and in the first free elections that the country had seen since WW2 thet secured over 80% of the vote.
Vaclav Havel, a playwright, author and a man who was imprisoned and persecuted by the communists for his view, was elected as the head of the party.
The transition of Czechoslovakia into a democratic state was arguably the most important date in the country's history, in a short number of years Czechoslovakia became the Czech Republic and Slovakia, joined NATO, became part of the shengen states and the EU.
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