After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution" id="mwAQw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Velvet Revolution">Velvet Revolution</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miloš_Jakeš" id="mwAQ0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Miloš Jakeš">Miloš Jakeš</a> and the entire Politburo of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Czechoslovakia" id="mwAQ4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Communist Party of Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovak Communist Party</a> resign from office.  This brings an effective end to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Czechoslovakia_(1948–1989)" id="mwAQ8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="History of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)">Communist rule in Czechoslovakia</a>.<sup about="#mwt45" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_24#cite_note-8" id="mwARA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwARE">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><a class="external autonumber" href="http://www.totalita.cz/1989/1989_1124.php" id="mwB04" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"></a> (<i id="mwB08">in Czech</i>)</span>