He was Czechoslovakia's first democratically elected prez after 'Velvet Revolution'
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Vaclav Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War, died this morning. He was 75. Havel was his country's first democratically elected president after the nonviolent "Velvet...
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