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Long-Distance Interrogation as an audio recording

February 2, 2011

IllustrationWe digitalised the tape recording of the Long-Distance Interrogation from 1985 which we obtained as a gift from historian Prof. Vilém Prečan.

Václav Havel taped it on the basis of questions from journalist Karel Hvížďala (currently residing in Germany) in the final length of approximately 12 hours and sent to Vilém Prečan to Hannover. Prof. Prečan subsequently re-sent the package to Bonn to Karel Hvížďala. Afterwards, the cassettes returned to the hands of Vilém Prečan again.

The recording is available only to public personally visiting the Archive.

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Letter to Gustáv Husák – samizdat essay

„The overall question, then, is this: What profound intellectual and moral impotence will the nation suffer tomorrow, following the castration of its culture today? I fear that the baneful effects on society will outlast by many years the particular political interests that gave rise to them. So much more guilty, in the eyes of history, are those who have sacrificed the country’s spiritual future for the sake of their present power interests.“

Václav Havel:
Letter to Gustáv Husák – samizdat essay, April 8, 1975

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