Vaclav Havel, noted Czech playright and dissident against suppression of liberty under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia and leader of the first democracy to emerge from the former Soviet Union of Socialist Repblics, has died at age 75.
Essentially self-educated, Havel's most important role was doubtless the one he played on the world stage.
A review of Havel's story, filed by the Associated Press and published in today's New York Times reveals the multi-faceted life of an ordinary citizen whose personal fervor for liberty and truth was to pioneer a peaceful movement in Eastern Euope that was to democratize member states of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, end the Cold War and unleash freedom to millions once under the heel of Communist domination.
Vaclav Havel, an ordinary man whose contributions to world history need to be remembered.
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