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Civic Forum leader Vaclav Havel, left, meets his long-time friend Milos Forman, Czech Oscar-winning film director, at the screening of his film Valmont in Prague on December 15, 1989. Forman, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1977, came to Czechoslovakia to support the Velvet Revolution. Czech Oscar-winning costume designer Theodor Pistek smiles in the middle.Vaclav Havel died on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, aged 75. Havel, a dissident playwright jailed by Communists, became Czechoslovak and than Czech president and a symbol of peace and freedom after bringing down communism in Czechoslovakia by leading bloodless Velvet Revolution . CTKPhoto46900473404

Civic Forum leader Vaclav Havel, left, meets his long-time friend Milos Forman, Czech Oscar-winning film director, at the screening of his film Valmont in Prague on December 15, 1989. Forman, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1977, came to Czechoslovakia to support the Velvet Revolution. Czech Oscar-winning costume designer Theodor Pistek smiles in the middle.Vaclav Havel died on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, aged 75. Havel, a dissident playwright jailed by Communists, became Czechoslovak and than Czech president and a symbol of peace and freedom after bringing down communism in Czechoslovakia by leading bloodless Velvet Revolution . CTKPhoto46900473404

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Civic Forum leader Vaclav Havel, left, meets his long-time friend Milos Forman, Czech Oscar-winning film director, at the screening of his film Valmont in Prague on December 15, 1989. Forman, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1977, came to Czechoslovakia to support the Velvet Revolution. Czech Oscar-winning costume designer Theodor Pistek smiles in the middle.Vaclav Havel died on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, aged 75. Havel, a dissident playwright jailed by Communists, became Czechoslovak and than Czech president and a symbol of peace and freedom after bringing down communism in Czechoslovakia by leading bloodless Velvet Revolution . CTKPhoto46900473404

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