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Kim and Havel

Two leaders, dead a day apart, could hardly be more different. Peter Hichens reported from both their lands for TAC in recent years — see his “Prisoners in Camp Kim” and “Prague Autumn,” the latter with quite a revisionist take on the Czech Republic’s velvet revolutionary: “Vaclav Havel, like so many revolutionaries, gradually transformed himself […]

Two leaders, dead a day apart, could hardly be more different. Peter Hichens reported from both their lands for TAC in recent years — see his “Prisoners in Camp Kim” and “Prague Autumn,” the latter with quite a revisionist take on the Czech Republic’s velvet revolutionary: “Vaclav Havel, like so many revolutionaries, gradually transformed himself from a tribune of liberty into a slightly tiresome figure of woolly, modish liberalism.”

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