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Vaclav Havel (C), a dissident playwright and leading member of the Czechoslovak opposition Civic Forum, his wife Olga and his brother Ivan (behind Havel), attend religious ceremony at Prague's Saint Guy Cathedral 29 December 1989, shortly after Havel took the oath as President of Czechoslovakia. 3rd from left, Czech Premier Marian Calfa and 4rd from left, former leader of 'Prague Spring', Slovak Alexander Dubcek. At the end of 1989, Havel, who drafted large parts of Charter 77, the declaration which helped attract international attention to the civil rights abuses in Czechoslovakia, was elected first president of the then Czechoslovakia when the state-communist system crumbled in the Velvet Revolution.
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is seen looking to the side with his mouth half open in the somewhat sinister-looking picture. He is wearing a red velvet military-style jacket featuring gold buttons and trimming.
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