50 years ago, Havel sent an open letter to Husák that foreshadowed Charter 77 - Seznam Zprávy

Next week it will be fifty years since Václav Havel sent a letter to Gustav Husák. I must say that it has been a long time since a text spoke to me in this way. I breathed with the text. And so much so that after years I stopped regretting that in my youth I never really got around to any...

Fifty years ago, Václav Havel sent an open letter to the head of the Czech Communist Party, Gustáv Husák, which became one of the most fundamental texts of the emerging dissent. Havel thought it through while "cooling off" in the Trutnov brewery.