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Václav Havel, (born October 5, 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]—died December 18, 2011, Hrádeček, Czech Republic), Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003).
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vaclav-HavelNever Hope Against Hope
Originally published in Esquire's October 1993 issue
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/amp12135/vaclav-havel-hope-6619552/“Allow me to tell you a little story about the nature of hope and absurdity. In 1989, only a few months before I was to become, to my bewilderment, an actual head of state, I survived my own death….”
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