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Václav
Havel was a playwright who became an
activist following the Warsaw Pact invasion of
Czechoslovakia in 1968. In 1989 he was elected
the first President of the Czechsolovak Socialist
Republic. In 1993 he became the first President
of the Czech Republic. |
Bratislava
is the largest city in Slovakia, as well as the
nation's capital. The only
national capital to actually border two
countries, the capitals of both Austria and
Hungary lie less than a half-hour away from the
city center. |
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