Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Evoking what some see as shades of Adolf Hitler's rhetoric regarding Germans living in Czechoslovakia before World War II,Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrevhas caused an uproar in the former Soviet Union. In remarks Tuesday at a defense and foreign policy council meeting, Kozyrev said that Russia will use its armed might to defend Russian nationals abroad. The statement immediately drew the ire of many in Ukraine, the Baltic states and other former Soviet republics with large populations of ethnic Russians. The states were quick to interpret the remarks as an indication ofRussian imperialist aspirations, but Kozyrev on Thursday...
Throughout the 1960s, Havel wrote essays and plays that went unpublished in his native country but greatly shaped underground Czechoslovakia. Over the next decade, he was a leader of the Charter-77 movement in which he helped to produce a manifesto of Czech citizens' criticisms of the autocratic regime...
Moralist though he is, perfect Havel is not. In the first elections held in free Czechoslovakia, Havel intimidated opposing Communist candidates from running for president by threatening to expose their secret police files. In attempting to exploit the old regime, Havel violated the spirit of the new democratic nation...
...When Czechoslovakia split into the CzechRepublic and Slovakia, Havel became president ofthe Czech Republic...
Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia in 1989, played a leading role in causing the collapse of Czechoslovakia's Communist regime...