From The Archives: Havel - It Was History That Overtook Us

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In 1989, dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was instrumental in bringing down communism in his native Czechoslovakia. Twenty years and a presidency later, RFE/RL sat down with Havel in his office in Prague and asked him to look back on what became known as the Velvet Revolution. (Note: this is an excerpt from an interview conducted with former Czech President Vaclav Havel October 21, 2009.) (RFE/RL)