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Vaclav Havel (left), a dissident playwright, leading member of the Czechoslovak opposition Civic Forum, who drafted large parts of Charter 77, the declaration which helped attract international attention to the civil rights abuses in Czechoslovakia, and Rudolf Batek (2nd-left) listen to Ladislav Lis (both member of Charter 77) addressing the crowd of demonstrators celebrating, December 10, 1988 in Prague, the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declarations of the Human Rights. At the end of 1989, Havel was elected first president of the than Czechoslovakia when the state-communist system crumbled in the Velvet Revolution. (KEYSTONE/-/AFP/Lubomir Kotek-Joel Robine) === ===