Another political popularity poll showed that the last two presidents are considered the most important politicians of the last 16 years by the Czech populace:

Havel, Klaus, Dostál most respected Czech politicians -- poll Prague- Former president Václav Havel, current President Václav Klaus and former culture minister Pavel Dostál, who died last year, have contributed to the country most of all during the past 16 years since the collapse of communism, according to a poll conducted by STEM and released to ČTK today.

For some reason it reminded me of this line from an old poem by Bob Holman:

Bob Holman: Poems 1989 It's 1990 & Nelson Mandela is free! & everybody wants a little glasnost We know we want it cause we see Frank Zappa smoking cigarettes with Vaclav Havel, who 6 months ago was in jail, an artist whose work was banned by the government, now he's the President of Czechoslovakia

This is a nice reminder of the heady days of not too long ago and, in retrospect, Holman's irony proved not a little prophetic. ‹ previous  •  266 of 530  •  next ›