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Why We Need More Leaders Like Vaclav Havel

June 6, 2008 - 12:40 am - by Bruce Bawer
jlbs
2011-12-20 14:06:33

In case you missed it, he did retire. He died last Sunday.

The main idea here is that he led Czechoslovakia out of Communism. I and my husband visited the Czech Republic in 1994. Our friends there told us they were working their way out of the Communistic influence and everyone was much happier because they had freedom of choice. We went again in 1999 and affluence was much more apparent. We would like to return for a third time—that is, if Communism doesn’t overtake the USA preventing us from going.