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Bronislaw Geremek: death of a former communist dissident

Tribute to the former Polish foreign minister, adviser to Lech Walesa and EU parliamentarian. The convinced European was killed in a car accident in Poland on 13 July. Obituary/ archive

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After Czechoslovakia split, Uhl chose Slovak citizenship (Photo: Boris Svartzman/ svartzman.com)

Petr Uhl: ‘I prefer to call it the Czechoslovak spring’

He stood on the barricades of Paris and Prague in 1968 and later produced the Charter 77 civic initiative. The man who once smoked cigarettes in prison with former president Václav Havel looks back over his sixty-six years, but also to Europe and the future

by Katharina Kloss // 21/06/08

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