Editing Velvet Revolution (section)

== Jingled keys ==
One element of the demonstrations of the Velvet Revolution was the jingling of keys to signify support. The practice had a double meaning – it symbolized the unlocking of doors<ref>{{cite web |url=http://havel.columbia.edu/the_velvet_revolution.html |title=Havel at Columbia: The Velvet Revolution |publisher=Havel.columbia.edu |access-date=19 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105160849/http://havel.columbia.edu/the_velvet_revolution.html |archive-date=5 November 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>"Today, at exactly noon in [[Prague]], people flooded into the streets around [[Wenceslas Square]], the central shopping thoroughfare, rattling key chains and tinkling tiny bells. The jingling of keys, acts symbolizing the opening of hitherto locked doors, has become a common gesture in the wave of demonstrations....  On Jungmanova Square, [[Václav Havel|Mr. Havel]] himself stood beaming broadly on the balcony of a building.... He lustily jingled a bunch of keys." John Tagliabue, "Upheaval in the East; From All Czechoslovakia, a Joyful Noise," [https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/12/world/upheaval-in-the-east-from-all-czechoslovakia-a-joyful-noise.html?scp=5&sq= ''The New York Times'', Dec. 12, 1989.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008073957/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/12/world/upheaval-in-the-east-from-all-czechoslovakia-a-joyful-noise.html?scp=5&sq= |date=8 October 2016 }}</ref> and was the demonstrators' way of telling the Communists, "Goodbye, it's time to go home."<ref name=Revolution1989/>

A commemorative [[€2 commemorative coins#2009 coinage|2 Euro coin]] was issued by Slovakia on 17 November 2009 to mark the 20th anniversary.  The coin depicts a bell with a key adjoining the clapper.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/theeuro/InformationWebsite.htm?http://www.ibiblio.org/theeuro/forum/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=535&p=1977 |title=Slovakia 2009 2 Euro Comm. New image |publisher=Ibiblio.org |access-date=19 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025134826/http://www.ibiblio.org/theeuro/InformationWebsite.htm?http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibiblio.org%2Ftheeuro%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff=81&t=535&p=1977 |archive-date=25 October 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>  [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] wrote a short story, [[Unlocking the Air and Other Stories|"Unlocking the Air"]], in which the jingling of keys played a central role in the liberation of a fictional country called [[Orsinian Tales|Orsinia]].