A President with his Trousers Rolled Up
A President with his Trousers Rolled Up

Summary/Abstract: Václav Havel was a tragic hero in a drama that he could have written himself. Each choice that the Czech president had made could have turned out wrong. Yet he decided to play on. Abroad,he was a symbol of the collapse of communism; at home he became marginalised and heavily criticised. However, on the first anniversary of Havel’s death, crowds of people walked down the streets with their trouser legs rolled up, just like their Váshek did during his inauguration ceremony.

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