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Václav Havel. Václav Havel ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslav ˈɦavɛl] ⓘ; 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and dissident. [1] [2] Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the ...
19 gru 2011 · The Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel was the most unexpected, and most brilliant, of the new leaders who emerged from east Europe's peaceful revolutions against Communism.
18 gru 2011 · Vaclav Havel went from being a playwright to a symbol of the new Czech state and democracy in Eastern Europe. Along the way he became Czech's first democratically elected president, nominee and...
14 lis 2019 · They turned to many of the people from Charter 77, now part of the Civic Forum political party, and Havel was elected the first president of the post-Communist country (and later the first president of the Czech Republic).
22 wrz 2019 · Months after I was born, a handful of longitude degrees north, the great Czech playwright turned dissident (turned, some years later, president) Václav Havel (October 5, 1936–December 18, 2011) addressed the vital role of hope in steering destiny in a series of interviews conducted shortly after his release from prison, where he had spent ...
23 paź 2013 · A number of speakers offered brief remarks on the amazing life and political and cultural contributions of the Czech playwright, dissident, political thinker and, finally, president (of both Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, 1989–2003).
18 gru 2011 · Vaclav Havel, the playwright-turned-politician who served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of the Czech Republic, has died at age 75.
