3:00am

Mon December 19, 2011
Remembrances

Former Czech President, Playwright Vaclav Havel Dies

In 1989, Vaclav Havel led the Prague Spring, the popular revolution that brought an end to Soviet domination in Eastern Europe. Havel went on to be Czech president for 14 years, a role that, as an artist, he says he never felt completely comfortable in. He was 75.

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