Vaclav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and dissident who served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the country's dissolution at the end of 1992, and then as the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism.
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Havel was the leading dissident figure and principal spokesman of Civic Forum during the 1989 revolution, elected President of Czechoslovakia at its close.
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was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism.
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5 October 1936 - 18 December 2011
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He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism.
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