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Václav Havel  

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  • Václav Havel (1936–) is politician, playwright, and former dissident. A renowned Czech playwright, Havel was an anti-communist dissident before he served as president of newly democratic Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and was elected the first president of the Czech Republic in 1993. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion; Havel, Václav]

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