Euphoria accompanied the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918 after centuries of foreign rule. The young democracy thrived until the 1938 Munich Agreement destroyed all hope and the country became Hitler''s occupied territory. Liberation in 1945 was quickly followed in 1948 by a comunist coupbeginning forty years of totalitarian rule from Moscow. The brutal Stalinist repression of the fifties gave way to reform in the sixties and hope during ''Prague Spring'' for "socialism with a human face,"y to be crushed in 1968 by the tanks of the Warsaw Pact states, ushering in twenty years of political and cultural gloom. 1989 Velvet Revolutionbrought new hope once again, and paved the way for the nation to return to democratic Europe. Take to the streets of Prague with us to relive these crucial events of the twentieth century and to peek behind the propaganda so you can get the truth about what life was like behind the Iron Curtain. (With your ticket you receive a coupon for 10% off admission to the museum of Communism.  Duration 2 hours.