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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Chris_ on December 18, 2011, 02:47:19 PM

Title: Vaclav Havel, Anti-Communist dissident, Czechosolvakian President dead at 75
Post by: Chris_ on December 18, 2011, 02:47:19 PM
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, one of the leading anti-Communist dissidents of the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 75, his spokeswoman announced Sunday.

Havel, a puckish, absurdist playwright turned political activist, spent four and a half years in prison for opposing Czechslovakia's Communist government before emerging as a leader of the Velvet Revolution that swept it aside in 1989.

He went on to become president of Czechoslovakia, and of the Czech Republic when the country split in two at the end of 1992.

He died peacefully in his sleep Sunday morning in the presence of his wife, Dagmar, Tancevova said.

CNN (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/18/world/europe/czech-republic-vaclav-havel-obit/?hpt=hp_t3)
Title: Re: Vaclav Havel, Anti-Communist dissident, Czechosolvakian President dead at 75
Post by: Ptarmigan on December 18, 2011, 05:49:35 PM
Rest In Peace Vaclav Havel.
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Title: Re: Vaclav Havel, Anti-Communist dissident, Czechosolvakian President dead at 75
Post by: Odin's Hand on December 18, 2011, 07:26:47 PM
A man that was absolutely loathed by the DUmmies...thus, was a great man.
Title: Re: Vaclav Havel, Anti-Communist dissident, Czechosolvakian President dead at 75
Post by: Boudicca on December 18, 2011, 10:19:46 PM
He won't be meeting up with Kim Jong Ill, that's for sure.  RIP, Mr. President, you were truly a beacon of hope to your countrymen!
Title: Re: Vaclav Havel, Anti-Communist dissident, Czechosolvakian President dead at 75
Post by: Karin on December 19, 2011, 07:12:50 AM
RIP.  On the right side of history and the angels. 
Title: Re: Vaclav Havel, Anti-Communist dissident, Czechosolvakian President dead at 75
Post by: Cyrus on December 19, 2011, 09:37:08 AM
REST IN PEACE SWEET PRINCE
Title: Re: Vaclav Havel, Anti-Communist dissident, Czechosolvakian President dead at 75
Post by: Eupher on December 19, 2011, 11:21:47 AM
Havel, along with Pole Lech Walesa, were real beacons of freedom in the Seventies and Eighties and beyond.

Rest in Peace, Vaclav. Well done.  :taps: