Havel, Václav, 1936-2011
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Havel, Václav, 1936-2011
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Havel
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Václav
Date :
1936-2011
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Khavel, Vat︠s︡lav, 1936-2011
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Surname :
Khavel
Forename :
Vat︠s︡lav
Date :
1936-2011
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Gavel, Vat︠s︡lav, 1936-2011
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Gavel
Forename :
Vat︠s︡lav
Date :
1936-2011
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Václav Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. After participating in the Prague Spring and being blacklisted after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, he became more politically active and helped found several dissident initiatives, including Charter 77 and the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted. His political activities brought him under the surveillance of the StB secret police, and he spent multiple periods as a political prisoner.
Havel's Civic Forum party played a major role in the Velvet Revolution that toppled the Communist system in Czechoslovakia in 1989. He assumed the presidency shortly thereafter, and was re-elected in a landslide the following year and after Slovak independence in 1993. He received numerous accolades during his lifetime, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Philadelphia Liberty Medal, the Order of Canada, the Four Freedoms Award, the Ambassador of Conscience Award, and the Hanno R. Ellenbogen Citizenship Award.
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https://id.loc.gov/authorities/n80007710
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10580628
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q36233
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