Fight for Freedom and Democracy Day
Fight for Freedom and Democracy Day
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17. November. 2001
Beginning in 2001, Slovakia celebrates 17th November as Fight for Freedom and Democracy Day. Similar to year 1939, university students played a crucial role in November 1989 especially in Prague and Bratislava. They became a catalyst of all later changes. In November 1989, the members of Public Safety beat students who protested for basic human rights on National Avenue. As time went on, the events dedicated to supporting the student and to express the dissatisfaction with the socialist establishment gained more traction, eventually ending in the fall of the regime. The year 1989 brought freedom, democracy, reinstating of human rights and religion to Czechoslovakia but also to millions of other people in eastern Europe. The Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic approved a low based on which 17th November – Fight of the Students for Freedom and Democracy – became a Memorial Day of CFR. The National Council of the Slovak Republic on the 20th October 1993 approved a new law by which 17th November became the Fight for Freedom and Democracy Day – a Memorial Day of the Slovak Republic. On the 25th October 2001, the MPs, approved that 17th November would become an official state holiday of Slovak Republic.
