Power of the powerless

“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty” — Thomas Jefferson VÁCLAV Havel (1936-2011) has been described as a “Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and dissident”. He was Czechoslovakia’s last president from 1989 until its dissolution on Dec 31, 1992. After the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and suppression of the Prague Spring he became one the leading dissidents against communist rule for which...

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