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With the news this past weekend that Vaclav Havel, the one-time Czech president, had died, I found myself recalling a scene back in 1989, when I was lucky enough to spend a week in Prague with Havel, the leader of what eventually became known as the "Velvet Revolution" -- the smooth, nonviolent, overthrow of Czechoslovakia's once-brutal communist leadership.
Todd Brewster: Remembering Vaclav Havel Todd Brewster 2011
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It called on the government only to fulfill civil and human-rights commitments ostensibly guaranteed under Czechoslovakia's own constitution as well as the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which the regime had signed.
Václav Havel 2011
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The crushing of the Czechoslovakia's freedom then was the spark, I suspect, for many who cherish and wish to defend the freedom of our own country to live and be governed as we wish without the Diktat of others, to uphold the principle of our country's Sovereignty.
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It was no mere coincidence, after all, that Vaclav Havel, the king of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, was a huge fan of The Velvet Underground.
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Mr. Liu signed Charter 08, a democracy manifesto that is modeled on Czechoslovakia's anti-Soviet Charter 77 and is an open rebuke to autocrats from Ra ú l Castro to Vladimir Putin.
The Nobel No-Shows 2010
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The crushing of the Czechoslovakia's freedom then was the spark, I suspect, for many who cherish and wish to defend the freedom of our own country to live and be governed as we wish without the Diktat of others, to uphold the principle of our country's Sovereignty.
Archive 2008-08-17 2008
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Less violent and also in 1989 was Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution against the ruling Communist party.
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Having listened this morning to John Tusa present a programme on Radio 4 recalling the brutal Russian extirpation of the Prague Spring in August 1968, I found myself moved to an outbreak of lachrymosity - just as I was forty years ago at the moment of Czechoslovakia's prostration - at the anguish of her people and their dignity in grave adversity.
Archive 2008-08-17 2008
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Less violent and also in 1989 was Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution against the ruling Communist party.
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Having listened this morning to John Tusa present a programme on Radio 4 recalling the brutal Russian extirpation of the Prague Spring in August 1968, I found myself moved to an outbreak of lachrymosity - just as I was forty years ago at the moment of Czechoslovakia's prostration - at the anguish of her people and their dignity in grave adversity.
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