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    Václav Havel

    Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic

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  1. 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 first president of ...

  2. Dec 18, 2011 · Writer and playwright; one of the first spokespersons of Charta 77, a leading personality in the course of political changes in November 1989, the last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic. Vaclav Havel grew up in the environment of a well-known Prague entrepreneur-intellectual family closely connected with ...

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  4. Resulted in. Collapse of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Resignation of the Politburo of the Communist Party (24 November 1989) Dissident leader Václav Havel becomes the President of Czechoslovakia (29 December 1989) Restoration of parliamentary democracy with free elections in June 1990.

    • 17 November – 28 November 1989
  5. Václav Havel ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːtslaf ˈɦavɛl] ( listen) ), 5 October 1936–18 December 2011, was a Czech playwright, essayist, dissident and politician. He was the tenth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989–92). He then became the first President of the Czech Republic (1993–2003).

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  6. sco.wikipedia.org › wiki › Václav_HavelVáclav Havel - Wikipedia

    Václav Havel ( Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːt͡slav ˈɦavɛl] ( listen); 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) wis a Czech playwricht, essayist, poet, dissident an politeecian. Havel wis the nint [2] an last preses o Czechoslovakie (1989–1992) an the first preses o the Czech Republic (1993–2003). He wrote mair nor 20 plays an numerous non ...

  7. Dec 19, 2011 · Vaclav Havel, the Czech writer and dissident whose eloquent dissections of Communist rule helped to destroy it in revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall and swept Mr. Havel himself...

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