Velvet Revolution: Negotiations With Students

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… were tired already and our lines thinned down. Except for Václav Havel and his wife, there was Jan Ruml, John Bok and … allowed to study. And of course this repelled the students. Václav Havel then needed to tell him: ‚John, enough of it, …

V případě potřeby jsem měl být spojkou mezi disentem a Stanislavem Devátým

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… Kdyby se něco dělo a oni se nemohli dovolat z Prahy - třeba Václav Havel nebo někdo takový, který by chtěl tomu mluvčímu …

Activation via Radio Free Europe

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… I listened to Radio Free Europe and they reported that Václav Havel had been arrested and that there had been some …

Collapse of the Soviet Union

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… much understanding, almost all of them were shocked, even Vaclav Havel, whom I liked and respected, believed that such …

Preparing for prison

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… see the famous publication The Two Thousand Words because Václav Havel brought it there. That happened in June 1968. …

They told me: the cell is ready for you

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… I had a foundation from my granddad. In 1977, when Václav Havel presented the Charter to the general public, …

My granddad signed the Charter 77

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… I had a foundation from my granddad. In 1977, when Václav Havel presented the Charter to the general public, …

Return to Czechoslovakia

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… it was the best period of my life, because on December 29, Václav Havel was elected president. He invited me for lunch …

That’s how freedom looks like!

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… Czechoslovakia, a country with a long democratic tradition. Václav Havel, for example. I will never forget how the …

Ladislav Chudík spoke on Wenceslas Square in November 1989

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… back to the Laterna Magika and managed to fight my way to Václav Havel and Václav immediately understood what was at …