The Civic Forum (Občanské fórum) delegates visiting the Minkovice prison

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… went roaring: 'Here we are now!' Quite an absurd situation. Václav Havel could use it in one of his plays. So I would …

Abolition of the Leading Role of the Communist Party

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… this case the dynamism was much greater in Slovakia. When Václav Havel was in Bratislava at the National Theatre for …

Bilateral meeting at the MFA, 1989

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… to freedom of expression. And at that time, I believe, Václav Havel had been arrested. There have been some …

Clip 3 We learnt how not to be afraid of power, foreign and our own. Coming to terms with power at the interface of political regimes

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… fascinated us, either negatively or positively. With Václav Havel´s essay Power of the Powerless, a non-power …

The Czech government will no longer represent the Castro Communist dictatorship

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… him how thankful we were, how happy we were. President [Václav] Havel was already at the [Prague] Castle, but I also wanted … political scientist] and others, they wrote to Havel. Then in those days, I managed to go to Prague without …

She refused to write a defamatory commentary about Václav Havel, but the editor-in-chief signed it on her behalf

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… She refused to write a defamatory commentary about Václav Havel, but the editor-in-chief signed it on her behalf …

My parents smuggled

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… campaigns started with us, initially only with vitamins for Vaclav Havel when he was in prison and also for Dominik Duka …

1968

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… I was a chairman of the Party’s association of writers, and Václav (Havel) was a chairman of the non-partisans´ union of …

Beaten up while he was in prison for a second time

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… it’s called Indolence, you should read it. (an interview of Václav Havel with Jiří Němec about Beneš as the Prague …

The exile magazine Listy was not silent and developed the ideas of the Prague Spring

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… but also, especially after 1983, a lot of articles by Václav Havel." …