Word: striking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--Millions of Czechoslovakians ignored government pleas and joined a nationwide general strike yesterday in the largest and most dramatic demonstration for democracy and an end to Communist Party rule...
...showing was a resounding victory for the opposition, which had called the two-hour strike a referendum on the Communists' 40-year monopoly on power...
Frantic attempts by Communist leaders to avert the strike failed, as workers joined the pro-democracy movement started by students, artists and intellectuals...
...there were still more conditions to be met. Posters demanding free elections and an end to one-party rule were plastered over the windows of the shops, hotels, and restaurants that closed to observe the strike...
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