Learn the most important facts from the rather tragic history of the new Czechoslovakian state. A visit to the memorial places of Wenceslas Square, today’s business, commercial and social centre, will take you back in time to the year 1918 and the establishment of Czechoslovakia, to 1948 when the communists violently took over the country and nationalised all personal property, to 1950 when most of the political executions took place, and inevitably to 1968 - the year of the Russian invasion, when many people emmigrated and many commited suicide in distress. You shall learn the reason for the self-immolations by fire of two young Czech students and you will also be shown where the Velvet Revolution took place in 1989 and all its consequences.