Weekend of the Closed Borders
Bicycle bridge of Freedom, Devínska Nová Ves
November 18 / Friday
04:00 pm - commemorative event
Moderator: Ladislav Snopko
Bicycle bridge of Freedom, Devínska Nová Ves
November 18 / Friday
04:00 pm - commemorative event
Moderator: Ladislav Snopko
- Welcoming the participants at Bicycle bridge of Freedom and introductory speech
- The act of closure - Installing barriers
- Statement by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nation´s Memory Institute Ondrej Krajňák
- Performance - arrest at the border (history police club, army and power components and the Club of Military History Border Guard Záhorská Ves)
- Statement by the mayor of Devinska Nova Ves Milan Jambor
- Statement by the Chairman of BSK and the host Pavol Frešo and call for the removal of the Iron Curtain
- After the program has finished - serving tea
November 19 / Saturday
Bicycle bridge of Freedom remains "closed" to Sunday.
Bicycle bridge of Freedom remains "closed" to Sunday.
November 20 / Sunday
04:00 pm - commemorative event
Moderator: Ladislav Snopko
04:00 pm - commemorative event
Moderator: Ladislav Snopko
- Welcoming the participants
- Musical performance - Longital
- Statement by the Chairman of BSK and the host Pavol Frešo
- Statement by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nation´s Memory Institute Ondrej Krajňák
- Musical performance - Longital
- Reading passages with binding to the November 17, 1989 (Charter 77, Few sentences, statements of VPN, Strike Committee of Students ...).
- Statement by the mayor of Devinska Nova Ves Milan Jambor
- Musical performance - Longital
- Opening the borders and a march with candles for freedom
- Lighting the candles at the rest of the Iron Curtain