VÃCLAV HAVEL, DISSIDENT PLAYWRIGHT TURNED STATESMAN, BORN 85 YEARS AGO
(from Radio Prague, 10/3/2021; Photo: Václav Havel|Photo: Filip Jandourek, Czech Radio.) Born into a prominent wealthy family, Václav Havel came of age after the Communist coup of 1948, when to be "bourgeois" was to be part of a despised social class. As a young man, his criticism of the regime and status as a "dissident […]