Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, has died.

Czechoslovakia, The Velvet Revolution, Wenceslas Square, November 1989: Vaclav Havel turns to hug Alexander Dubcek as they receive the news that the Czechoslovakia Communist Party are resigning from power after more than 40 years.

Olga Havlová - Charter 77 signatory - wife Vaclav Havel

Freedom's hero and a Czech patriot. Prague photographer Pavel Stecha took this picture of Havel as a magazine assignment. Stecha told me that he didn't want to pose Havel in a predictable presidential office setting, so he asked him to go to the National Museum and pick out his favorite piece. Havel chose this icon of an angel whispering in the ear of a saint (or is it Jesus?). Stecha told Havel to make some kind of gesture, and Havel playfully cupped his ear, hoping to eavesdrop on a very…

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Images from the life of Czechoslovakia's dissident-turned-president, Vaclav Havel, who has died at the age of 75.

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Vaclev Havel’s death on December 18th, 2011, deprived the world not only of a superior—which is to say thinking—human being but of a theatre artist …

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Im Zuge der "samtenen Revolution" 1989 beginnt die Loslösung aus dem kommunistischen Machtbereich. Die staatliche Gemeinschaft mit der Slowakei löst sich auf, und 1993 entsteht mit der Tschechischen Republik eine parlamentarische Demokratie, in der s

Dagmar and Vaclav Havel on a walk, 1997 Fot. Tomki Nemec

Lany, 1990 - Presidential Residence.Vaclav Havel watches a recording of his appearance on BBC television. Fot. Tomki Nemec

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Vaclav Havel - Communist Dissector :-)