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The Silent Classroom tells the story of teenage students in the town of Storkow who decided to remain mute in front of their teacher on October 29
It represented a youthful bid for freedom in a monolithic state that brooked no dissent and mobilised its full might
The protest by 20 pupils at the town’s high school was staged in front of Werner Mogel because of events unfolding hundreds of miles away in Hungary