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Václav Havel was a Czech playwright and politician born in 1936 in Prague. He was a dissident against the communist regime, criticizing it through plays. As a result, he spent five years in prison in the 1980s. After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he became the first president of Czechoslovakia and later the first president of the Czech Republic. He championed human rights and helped lead the transition to democracy.
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- 4. First steps He studied Secondary General Education School for chemist laborers in Prague. In the 1960s´ he also worked in the Theatre Na zábradlí. After that he became one of the underground dissidents and critic of the Czech communist regime.
- 5. How did he become famous? He was fighting for human rights and he helped to break communist regime in the former Czecheslovakia. He was a succesful writter. He has been released from prison in 1989 and he became a president of the former Czechoslovakia. Based on this he also signed Charter 77 for which he was arrested and put to a prison for five years and there he was writing many other plays.
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