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Offline subdjoe

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Vaclav Havel Dead at 75
« on: December 19, 2011, 06:05:26 AM »
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Admirers poured into the streets of Prague Sunday night with candles and flowers in memory of Havel, people on the scene said.

The former dissident playwright helped topple communism in eastern Europe through the power of his words, insisting, "Truth and love triumph over lies and hate."

His longtime friend and translator Paul Wilson remembered him as a "a very shy and gentle man with a will of steel, who was fearless when confronting a regime that tried, relentlessly, to crush his spirit."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/19/world/europe/czech-republic-vaclav-havel/index.html
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Re: Vaclav Havel Dead at 75
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2011, 07:40:50 AM »
I may have been wrong about him, but he is one of only a few world leaders that I considered a man worthy of his position. All the rest are as farts in a hurricane. 


RIP  VACLAV HAVEL
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