20 NOVEMBER 1989 (Czechoslovakia, 1989)

In November, 1989, massive demonstrations against the communist regime took place in Prague. On 20 November, 1989, about 150,000 people gathered on Prague’s Wenceslaus Square. In other cities around the country too many thousands of people took to the streets. Pavel átecha photographed the faces of the demonstrators at the Prague manifestation, tense but full of hope for a better future.