"Mr. Havel’s plays... went “the deepest into the hypocrisy and pomposity of the Communist regime” and in doing so “crossed the world of just theater and became a symbol of free thinking.”"
— Václav Havel

January 1, 1970

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Filmmaker Miloš Forman, as quoted in "A Melding of the Artist’s Politics and the Politician’s Art" in The New York Times written by the late Mel Gussow (published on 18 December 2011)