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Standing on a balcony of Prague's castle, playwright Vaclav Havel flashes a victory sign to a crowd of thousands after her was elected President of Czechoslovakia December 29, 1989. Havel, the dissident playwright who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a hero of the epic struggle that ended the Cold War. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)