strakonice and the velvet revolution

a communist govornment controled czechloslovokia until the "velvet revolution" on 1989. Petr lived in strakonice at the time, for him the revolution was something he witnessed on the television. day after day workers gathered in the city and stood oddly silent, occasionaly singing the national anthem or listening to a speach. One day it ended and suddenly for the first time in his life, petr could leave the country. "There used to be many beautiful buildings in strakonice but the communnists tore them down because they were innefficent." he tells us . Petr works in a library in a castle near the river. We walk there together and pend some time looking a books and using the internet.