Velvet Revolution at the Embassy in Maputo

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… of the year, and that the only candidate for president was Václav Havel. And I want to talk about this moment. The … woman can disgust in a second. When they announced that Václav Havel would be the only candidate, the woman had a …

Friends with a different worldview

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… „(Václav Havel didn’t) have the same philosophy as my husband. …

Why she decided for dissent

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… did that back then. And once I heard a conversation between Václav Havel and Pavel Tigrid, and it made such a powerful …

Sametová amnestie

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… Žádný vycházky, nic, čekali jsme jenom. Von to vyhlásil [Václav Havel vyhlásil amnestii] a šli jsme podle abecedy, já …

Velvet revolution on Wenceslas Square

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… there and watching the crowd and listening. Suddenly, Václav Havel was standing just next to me. I said: ‘Václav, …

Life principles

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… have my principles. One day we were sitting somewhere with Václav Havel – it was in 1983 or around that time. He was …

Contemplating emigration

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… of those who were imprisoned for longer time such as Václav Havel. For that reason, I was seriously contemplating …

People supported us

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… Civic Forum was amazing. Related to this is the memory of Václav Havel's first free election as president. When we …

Návrat do vlasti po listopadu 1989

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… života byl dvacátý prosinec osmdesát devět, když byl zvolen Václav Havel a věděl jsem, že teď už je to na beton, teď …

Students visiting Ladislav Adamec's apartment on 18 November 1989

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… was in the Communist Party. Then we got on the subject of Václav Havel. I remember that very precisely, because he said, 'Václav Havel, he's a boy from a bourgeois family. When I was … we all know the famous photographs of Ladislav Adamec and Václav Havel shaking hands from the demonstration on Letná …