it completed when leadin dissident and playwright vaclav havel became president. our correspondent john simpson, who cover the events in 1989, has returned to prague. john: nowadays problem isxe reand beautiful and jampacked with tourists. you got to be 50 or more to remember how poverty-stricken it was under communism, and how brutal. intellectuals led by the famous playwright vaclav havel kept up the resistance ever since the russian invasion of 1968. they had been spied on and beaten up and jailed for years. but by 1989, things were changing. a new generation came out onto the streets to support people that support tdim, people who 't remember 1968. monica was one of the student leaders. nowadays she teaches students herself and she still remembers to see how many people turnedgo out to demonstrate. >> i was the first speaker. i could not believe it. i saw thousands and thousands of peop in front of me, and i thought, finally, people lost fear. i think it was a change of generations, because people liky arents who experienced 1968, the russian occupation, in th

it was completed when the leading dissident and playwright vaclav havel became the country's presidentcovered the events in 1989, has returned to prague to speak to some of its leading figures. nowadays, prague is relaxed, beautiful, and jampacked with tourists. you've got to be 50 or more to remember how repressed and poverty stricken it was under communism. and, how brutal. a small group of intellectuals, headed by the world —famous playwright group of intellectuals, headed by the world—famous playwright vaclav havel had kept up their resistance ever since the russian invasion of 1968. they had been spied on, beaten up 1968. they had been spied on, beaten up and jailed for years. but by 1989, things were changing. a new generation came out onto the streets to support them. people who didn't remember 1968. this woman was one of the student leaders. nowadays, she teaches students herself, and she still remembers how amazed she was 30 years ago to see how many people had turned out to demonstrate. 30 years ago to see how many people had turned out to demonstratelj 30 years ago to see ho

a small group of intellectuals, headed by the world—famous playwright vaclav havel had kept up theiror years. but by 1989, things were changing. a new generation came out onto the streets to support them. people who didn‘t remember 1968. monika pajerova was one of the student leaders. nowadays, she teaches students herself, and she still remembers how amazed she was 30 years ago to see how many people had turned out to demonstrate. i was the first speaker. i could not believe it. i saw thousands and thousands of people in front of me and i thought, finally, people lost fear. i think it was a change of generations, because people like my parents who experienced 1968, the russian occupation, in their 20s, they were really scared. and we, their children, who were born around ‘68, we did not have this fear in us. but the dissidents who had stood out for years against the police state knew how repressive it could be, and when they weren‘t behind bars, people like jan urban could only do manual labour. as a dissident spokesman, he and his family were hounded by the secret police. they came

a small group of intellectuals, headed by the world—famous playwright vaclav havel had kept up theirration came out onto the streets to support them. people who didn‘t remember 1968. monika pajerova was one of the student leaders. nowadays, she teaches students herself, and she still remembers how amazed she was 30 years ago to see how many people had turned out to demonstrate. i was the first speaker. i could not believe it. i saw thousands and thousands of people in front of me and i thought, finally, people lost fear. i think it was a change of generations, because people like my parents who experienced 1968, the russian occupation, in their 20s, they were really scared. and we, their children, who were born around ‘68, we did not have this fear in us. but the dissidents who had stood out for years against the police state knew how repressive it could be, and when they weren‘t behind bars, people like jan urban could only do manual labour. as a dissident spokesman, he and his family were hounded by the secret police. they came to question my wife the day before she was supposed to