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velvet revolution

noun

  1. the peaceful overthrow of a government, esp a communist government, as occurred in Czechoslovakia in late 1989

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In May 2007 she was charged with “crimes against national security and planning a velvet revolution,” and then incarcerated.

These "new religion-personality cult-purges" cycles were not absent from the Velvet Revolution.

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