In retrospect, only one politician in those photographs stands out as a true post-communist political success: Vaclav Havel ... in a private home with the police. “We don’t do that ...

Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who inspired ... won him praise around the globe — and special attention from the police state at home. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, popular ...

Editor’s Note: Paul Wilson has known Vaclav Havel since the 1970s and has translated ... and suffered many more years of intrusive police surveillance. He was not alone, of course, but his ...

VACLAV HAVEL was, in some respects ... afterward he suffered incessant monitoring and harassment from the secret police of Czechoslovakia, the most coldly repressive regime of the Soviet Bloc.

Václav Havel, the Czech dissident playwright and human rights advocate who helped peacefully lead his nation out of communist control, died today at 75. Over more than a decade in office as ...

But for Vaclav Havel, it was a moment he helped pay for ... and in November the Berlin Wall fell. Eight days later, police brutally broke up a demonstration by thousands of Prague students.

12 People light candles in front of a line of riot police who had stopped protesters from crossing a bridge on November 21. 13 Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright and former political prisoner ...

Vaclav Havel, Summer Meditations, 1993 Vaclav Havel rose from a persecuted life as a dissident playwright hounded by secret police to a symbol of freedom as the leader of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 ...

It has not reestablished a police state, it hasn’t accepted doctrinal ... the “moral exhibitionism” of its new president, Vaclav Havel. Translations of the foregoing excerpts from the ...

Czechs joined their leaders and foreign politicians Sunday in paying tribute to Vaclav Havel, who led the 1989 ... Eight days later, communist police brutally broke up a demonstration by thousands ...