velvet revolution
Britishnoun
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Martirosyan said that she and many of her colleagues were in the forefront of the velvet revolution because “we believed that our rights would’ve been protected in new Armenia”.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 26, 2019
The new mood is defined by the millennial generation’s role in the velvet revolution of this past spring.
From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2018
Now, 44 years on, a glorious velvet revolution is unfolding.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2015
With George H. W. Bush in Wenceslas Square in Prague to commemorate the first anniversary of the velvet revolution in 1990.
From Time ● Oct. 23, 2013
Vaclav Havel, who led the "velvet revolution" that toppled communism in Czechoslovakia, has nominated Paya for the Nobel Peace Prize.
From Time Magazine Archive
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