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[Unedited] Parker Palmer With Krista Tippett (On Repossessing Virtue)

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Havel's Open Letter and Its Impact on Czechoslovakia

The speaker wrote an open letter to Gustav Husek, the head of the communist party in Czechoslovakia, expressing his refusal to cooperate with the regime./nThe letter became a widely circulated underground document and served as a source of inspiration for small movement groups./nThe letter revealed the speaker's personal experience and generated empathy among others who related to his story./nThe speaker clarified that the intention behind the letter was not to incite a movement against communism, but rather to express his own convictions.

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