The Voice of America Falls Silent

On February 21, 1990, Václav Havel, the Czechoslovakian dissident turned president, received a rapturous welcome from a packed U.S. Congress. In his speech, Havel recalled that just months earlier he had been arrested by Europe’s most conservative communist government in a society that “slumbered beneath the pall of a totalitarian system.”

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