Praha, Rašínovo nábřeží 78
bývalý byt Václava Havla · Rašínovo nábřeží 2000/78, 120 00 Praha-Praha 2, Česká republika
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Charter 77 Meant My Liberation

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The text of Charter 77 was written down during December 1976 in the former flat of Václav Havel and published in foreign media at the beginning of January 1977. The motivation for Charter 77 was the arrest of the members of the music band The Plastic People of the Universe. One of the first signatories was Ivan Medek and he still well remembers the reasons for signing the charter. “I signed Charter 77 due to my personal reasons because those people asking for our support had the right to ask. I also wanted to get rid of certain schizophrenia I lived in, and I am sure I was not the only one. It was the feeling when people can say everything at home and in the presence of their friends, but at work and publicly they cannot say anything. After signing the charter I felt liberated.” Right after publishing the text of Charter 77 their founding members were arrested and the first signatories had to face different reprisals, such as being fired. The response of the regime was publishing the anti-charter in Rudé Právo (the official newspaper of the Communist Party). Signing the anti-charter was on a mass scale and organised. Charter 77 had 1883 signatories up to the year 1990.

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Ivan Medek

Ivan Medek

Ivan Medek was born on July 12, 1925 in Prague. He was a journalist, originally a musicologist, a member of Václav Talich´s Czech Chamber Orchestra and a co-worker of the Czech Philharmonic. After 1969 he was banned from public activities and in January 1977, after signing Charter 77, he was immediately fired from Supraphon (music publisher). Afterwards he worked as a hospital attendant in a hospital Na Františku, but he was dismissed again and once more for political reasons. Later he did the dishes and was an attendant in a restaurant. After series of interrogations and StB (State Security) attacks in 1978 he emigrated to Austria. In Wien he became a correspondent of Voice of America and cooperated with Radio Free Europe and other broadcast institutions – BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Vatikán. From 1993 to 1998 he worked in an office of Václav Havel, the president of the Czech Republic. He died on January 6, 2010 in Prague.

Praha, Rašínovo nábřeží 78

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Dům na Rašínově nábřeží v Praze postavil dědeček Václava Havla v roce 1904. I když komunisté rodině dům zabavili, byl jim zde později přidělen jeden byt, kde prožil Václav Havel velkou část svého života. Na konci války byl sousední dům (stával na místě dnešního Gehryho Tančícího domu) zničen při náletu a činžovní dům rodiny Havlovy byl značně poškozen. Po intervenci několika významných architektů byl dům uchráněn před stržením a opraven.

Praha, Rašínovo nábřeží 78

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