Velvet Revolution

The Velvet Revolution was a revolution in Prague that started with thousands of university students demonstrating on the International Student's Day on the eve of November 16, 1989. On November 17 more people started to join the students in the square. They had been against the government for a long time but been to scared to say or do anything about it. The masses of people grew every day. By November 20, 100,000 people have joined the demonstrations and by November 25 there were 800,000 people demonstrating in Prague and 100,000 in Bratislava. It was obvious that a lot of people had been dissatisfied with the government.
But now it turns out that a lot of people in both Slovakia and the Czech Republic would like the old government back. After the communist government stepped down people thought that everything would get a lot better, but not everybody thinks it did. 54 percent of Czechs and 70 percent of Slovak do not think that the post-communist developments have not met the expectations according to a study conducted by the Median polling institute for Czech and Slovak television and radio. And about one fifth of Czechs and Slovaks think that the situation has worsened since 1989. But the study also shows that this is only accurate if you look at the people who earn less than 20,000 crowns or 800 euros a month. The people that have good educations and better paid jobs are fairly satisfied. And the only big reason for peoples disappointment is social uncertainty and employment. People felt more secure during the communism and some would like that security back even if that meant have no, or very little freedom.