Ivan Martin Jirous
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Ivan Martin Jirous was a Czech poet and dissident, best known as the artistic director of the Czech psychedelic rock group The Plastic People of the Universe, and later one of the key figures of the C
Ivan Martin Jirous, Ostrava, December 11, 2007
Charter 77
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Charter 77 was an informal civic initiative in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic from 1976 to 1992, named after the document Charter 77 from January 1977. Founding members and architects were Jiří N
Ivan Martin Jirous
…together for the first time the originally apolitical underground groups and political dissidents led by Havel, which eventually led to the creation of Charter 77. On his release from prison in 1977, Jirous signed the Charter, and also organised a third "festival of independent culture", at Václav Havel's country…
Charter 77 memorial in Prague