Through workers' eyes
TWO years ago millions of Czechs and Slovaks came out into the streets to demand the end of
OSCANSKÉ FORUM
Gustav Husak's neo-Stalinist regime; abandoned by Moscow, isolated by the fall of the like-minded regime of Erich
Honecker in East Germany and deserted by much of the
Communist Party apparatus and base, this regime crumbled swiftly, undermined from within. Promising a
"return to the West" and market reforms, the Civic Forum (OF)
opposition movement and its Slovak counterpart, Public
Against Violence (VPN), won a decisive victory in the June
1990 elections.