You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances….It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
Václav Havel
Václav Havel
Last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of the Czech Republic

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Vaclav Havel was a 20th-century Czech last president of czechoslovakia and first president of the czech republic. Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. Read more on Wikipedia →

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