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Ko te whakaekenga a te Kawenata o Warsaw o Czechoslovakia i te marama o Akuhata 1968, i awhina a Havel i te aukati ma te tuku korero i runga i te reo irirangi i te teihana Radio Free Czechoslovakia (i Liberec). Whai muri i te tukinga o te Prague Spring i te tau 1968, i aukatia ia mai i te whare tapere ka kaha ake tana mahi torangapu. I mahi ia i te whare waipiro o Krakonoš i Trutnov, he wheako i tuhia e ia i roto i tana taakaro "Te hunga whakarongo". Ko tenei taakaro, me etahi atu takaro "Vaněk" e rua (i kiia nei na te mea ko te tangata e hoki mai ana a Ferdinand Vaněk, he tuuru mo Havel), i tohaina i roto i te ahua samizdat puta noa i Czechoslovakia, a he nui te whakanui i te ingoa o Havel hei kaiwawao nui (he maha atu nga kaituhi Czech i tuhi i a raatau ake taakaro e whakaatu ana i a Vaněk). I whakapakarihia tenei ingoa me te whakaputanga o te "Charter 77" manifesto, i tuhia hei whakautu ki te herehere o nga mema o te roopu toka psychedelic Czech The Plastic People of the Universe; I tae atu a Havel ki ta raatau whakawakanga, e pa ana ki te kore o te roopu ki te makawe roa, te whakamahi i nga korero whakarihariha i roto i a raatau puoro, me to raatau whakauru katoa ki te nekehanga o raro o Prague. I whakatūria e Havel te Komiti mō te Whakapā o te hunga i whakawakia he kore i te tau 1979. Ko ana mahi torangapu i puta ai te maha o nga herehere a nga mana, me te tirotiro tonu a te kawanatanga me te uiui a te pirihimana ngaro (Státní bezpečnost). Ko tana wa roa i te whare herehere, mai i te Haratua 1979 ki te Hui-tanguru 1983, kua tuhia ki roto i nga reta ki tana wahine i whakaputaina i muri mai ko "Nga reta ki a Olga".