4 records
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1979–83
While in custody Havel receives an offer of a one-year stay in New York, in other words an offer to emigrate. He refuses as long as other political prisoners are not also released, therefore losing the chance to get out. In prison he writes letters to his wife that become a series of philosophical essays addressing ethics, responsibility and relationship with God. Friends piece together the collection Letters to Olga (Dopisy Olze), which comes to be regarded as a key expression of Havel's philosophy and is soon translated into a number of world languages.
říjen 1979
Trial of members of the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Prosecuted. VH is sentenced to four and a half years without parole for subversion. Similar verdicts are handed down to VONS activists Petr Uhl, Jiří Dienstbier, Otta Bednářová, Václav Benda, Dana Němcová and others.
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