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Dissidents after the Iron Curtain

Dissidents after the Iron Curtain

Twenty years ago on Friday, in what was then Czechoslovakia, the secret police arrested people for being involved with an anti-Communist underground newspaper.But within months the regimes fell, and in many countries the dissidents came to power.Brian Hanrahan reported on the fall of the Iron Curtain and went to Prague to meet some of those who spent a lifetime opposing Communism.

BBC | July 10, 2009Watch more videos from BBC

Tags:. .czechoslovakia. .hanrahan. .prague. .dissidents. .iron curtain

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