Skoda VW 25 years

10 December 1989: Václav Havel waves from a balcony on Prague‘s Wenceslas Square, after the constitution of the new Czechoslovak government. Two weeks later, at the end of 1989, Havel was elected first president of the than Czechoslovakia when the state-communist system crumbled in the Velvet Revolution. (Photo: Lubomir Kotek/AFP/Getty Images)