Havel was a great inspirator and a model for the entire European human rights movement. He also played an important role in establishing Helsinki Watch in the late 1970s, and had close contact with the International Helsinki Movement. His importance in the work of a democratic and free Europe based on respect for human rights is enormous, continues Engeland.
As a dramatist and opposition dissident from the 1960s, Havel was given an important place in the fight against the authoritarian Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. His popular appeal was also wide and, with the essay, the power of the powerless, manipulating the manipulation of Communist dictatorship, and acting as Audience and Protest, Havel became an important person in the consciousness of the Czechoslovak people.
Vaclav Havel was one of the architects and founders of Charta 77, a crucial political document where key intellectuals demanded democracy and freedom of speech in Czechoslovakia, and marked a clear opposition to the communist dictatorship. Havel was the spokesman for the movement and was detained in 1979. Prison stay lasted until 1982. Havel was also central during the Velvet Revolution in 1989, which marked the end of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Havel was elected President of Czechoslovakia in 1989, and the Czech Republic’s first president after the 1993 division, a position he had until 2003. Vaclav Havel was a frightening Europeans. He will be missed.