December 18, 2011
This is in memoriam of Vaclav Havel, who died today aged 75 after pro-longed ill health. The great man who steered the Czechs and Slovaks out of communism will always be a big part of my childhood memories growing up in neighbouring Austria.  Asked in an interview in 2009 about his favourite memory of the Velvet Revolution, “Mr. Havel said it was the mass gathering on Letna Plain above Prague in late November 1989, when 750,000 people gathered in freezing temperatures. “It was so cold, there were too many speakers, but I looked out and felt that something was definitely changing, that it was a turning point,” he said.” (Photograph is of Letna Plain 1989 by Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Corbis) — From London. 

This is in memoriam of Vaclav Havel, who died today aged 75 after pro-longed ill health. The great man who steered the Czechs and Slovaks out of communism will always be a big part of my childhood memories growing up in neighbouring Austria. 

Asked in an interview in 2009 about his favourite memory of the Velvet Revolution, “Mr. Havel said it was the mass gathering on Letna Plain above Prague in late November 1989, when 750,000 people gathered in freezing temperatures. “It was so cold, there were too many speakers, but I looked out and felt that something was definitely changing, that it was a turning point,” he said.”

(Photograph is of Letna Plain 1989 by Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Corbis)

— From London. 


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