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Thirty-Five Years since the Velvet Revolution from View of Czech Public

In a survey conducted in the summer of 2024, the Public Opinion Research Centre of the Instutute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic gave all respondents a series of questions in connection with the upcoming 35th anniversary of the 1989 November Revolution. The questions examined the views of the Czech public on the November Revolution and on changes in the political and economic system in general and in individual areas of life.

Along with the period of the first Czechoslovak Republic, the 1989 November Revolution is the most favorably evaluated event of our history since 1918 for the Czech public.

43% of Czechs valuate the current conditions as better than in the period before November 1989, 16% think that the conditions at that time were better than the current ones, according to 37% it is about half on half.

With exception. of social security and the safety of citizens, the current conditions in individual areas of life are mostly evaluated better than the situation before November 1989.

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