Word: czechoslovakiaã
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Vaclav Havel, a leader of Czechoslovakia??€™s Velvet Revolution of 1989, is one of the great heroes of democracy of the twentieth century. He is also a highly regarded playwright and author. On the other hand, I believe the most famous thing Kofi Annan has ever written is the notorious fax in which he explicitly forbade United Nations troops from interfering in the Rwandan genocide. In addition to looking the other way through an ever-growing series of genocides, Annan is presiding over the oil-for-food scandal, one of the largest humanitarian crimes in history, and accusations...
...have given too much away is not really a problem when reviewing this film, but rest assured that Zelary has much more to offer than what is described here. This gem from the Czech Republic is a breathtakingly photographed portrait of the way life in Czechoslovakia??€”and indeed much of Europe—during that period was so cleanly book-ended by the start and end of the war, revealing just how much wartime could define a stage in a person’s life, but seemingly leave the rest of it fairly untouched...
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