Word: strana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders met at the castle, 3,000 young people, mostly workers and high school students, swarmed up the narrow streets of the Mala Strana quarter to the gates of Hradcany. Waving red-white-and-blue Czechoslovak flags that they had torn from buildings festooned for the anniversary, the youths shouted what their elders no longer dared: "We want freedom!" "Better dead than shame!" When they spotted Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko's black Chaika limousine behind the barred iron grille of the castle, the crowd cried, "Russians, go home!" "We have the truth, they have the tanks!" For a moment...