The Czech Republic Remembers Havel. What Events Are Planned for His Unborn Ninetieth Birthday?
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People will commemorate the 90th anniversary of Václav Havel's birth at home and in the world in an atmosphere of conflict, mistrust, uncertainty and fear of the future, the likes of which they have not experienced since the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which he led. Two major armed conflicts in the nearby neighborhood touch on our security, economic prosperity and ability to preserve freedom and democracy, two fundamental pillars of the social syste…
There is something strikingly un-Havlovian about how we remember Václav Havel today. A man who built his entire oeuvre on exposing the ridiculousness hidden behind the festive...
Prague - Václav Havel's unfulfilled 90th birthday will be commemorated by cultural events, debates or the ceremonial unveiling of a memorial plaque in the Senate and on the house in Prague's Dejvice, where Havel lived in the 1970s. Commemorative events have been taking place all over the country since the weekend. Most of the events will take place on Monday, October 5, when the first post-November president would have celebrated his birthday. F…
Václav Havel's ninetieth birthday has been celebrated in great numbers in recent days and will continue to be so for several more days, as it will not be celebrated until Monday, October 5. Some people may be fed up with such adoration, they may consider it an unfortunate cult of personality, but I, on the contrary, think that if there is something to praise, it should be done, not just as long as we personally remember that person. It is still …
The first post-November president, Václav Havel, would have celebrated his 90th birthday on Monday, October 5. To celebrate the prominent Czech playwright, dissident, and world-renowned statesman, the capital has organized a diverse series of cultural events commemorating the life of the last Czechoslovak and later the first Czech head of state.
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