Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright and leading member of the Czechoslovak opposition Civic Forum (OF) attends a meeting 19 December 1989 in Prague. At the end of 1989, Havel, who drafted large parts of Charter 77, the declaration which helped attract international attention to the civil rights abuses in Czechoslovakia, was elected first president of the then Czechoslovakia when the state-communist system crumbled in the Velvet Revolution. AFP PHOTO LUBOMIR KOTEK (Photo credit should read LUBOMIR KOTEK/AFP/Getty Images)