Sunday, December 18, 2011
Vaclev Havel, RIP
He was a true man of peace and freedom. One of the greats of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, along with Lech Walesa, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Corazon Aquino. Unarmed, they stood up to tyranny – and tyranny flinched. ... The NYT's succinct, says-it-all lead:
He was a true man of peace and freedom. One of the greats of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, along with Lech Walesa, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and Corazon Aquino. Unarmed, they stood up to tyranny – and tyranny flinched. ... The NYT's succinct, says-it-all lead:
Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, has died. He was 75.
