On Thursday 16 November 1989 a few hundred Bratislava students marched through the city — a day before the Prague march that is usually said to have started the revolution. On 19 November Slovak actors, artists and dissidents founded Public Against Violence in Bratislava, on the same day the Czechs founded Civic Forum in Prague. Within a week SNP Square in Bratislava held hundreds of thousands of people jingling their keys. The general strike of 27 November — two hours, the whole country — showed the regime that the factories were with the students and not with it, and on 29 November parliament deleted the article of the constitution that gave the Communist Party its leading role. Nobody was killed: that is why it is called the Velvet Revolution, and free elections followed in June 1990.Vo štvrtok 16. novembra 1989 prešlo mestom niekoľko stoviek bratislavských študentov — deň pred pražským pochodom, o ktorom sa zvyčajne hovorí, že revolúciu začal. Devätnásteho novembra založili slovenskí herci, umelci a disidenti v Bratislave Verejnosť proti násiliu, v ten istý deň vzniklo v Prahe české Občianske fórum. O týždeň stáli na Námestí SNP v Bratislave státisíce ľudí a štrngali kľúčmi. Generálny štrajk 27. novembra — dve hodiny, celá krajina — ukázal režimu, že továrne sú so študentmi, a nie s ním, a 29. novembra vyškrtol parlament z ústavy článok o vedúcej úlohe komunistickej strany. Nikto nezahynul: preto sa tomu hovorí nežná revolúcia — a v júni 1990 prišli slobodné voľby.
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