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    We Live in A Contaminated Moral Environment By: Vaclav Havel

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    Vaclav Havel was a Czech poet, playwright, and politician who became Czechoslovakia's first democratically elected president after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. In this speech from the year of revolutions in Eastern Europe, Havel argues that under the previous communist regime, Czech citizens learned not to believe in moral concepts and were reduced to tools of production. He states that this created a "contaminated moral environment" and calls on citizens to take responsibility for the country's failures in order to establish moral uprightness and prepare for democratic elections.

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    Vaclav Havel was a Czech poet, playwright, and politician who became Czechoslovakia's first democratically elected president after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. In this speech from the year of revolutions in Eastern Europe, Havel argues that under the previous communist regime, Czech citizens learned not to believe in moral concepts and were reduced to tools of production. He states that this created a "contaminated moral environment" and calls on citizens to take responsibility for the country's failures in order to establish moral uprightness and prepare for democratic elections.

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    We Live in A Contaminated Moral Environment By: Vaclav Havel

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    We Live in a Contaminated Moral Environment

    By: Vaclav Havel

    Who is Vaclav Havel?

     Labeled as “Bourgeois”
     Poet and Playright
    - Criticized Czech Communists
    government for the Theatre on
    the Balustrade
     Czechoslovakia’s first
    democratically elected president.
    - Arrested
    - Velvet Revolution of 1989
     Human Rights Activist
    - moral commitment to
    community to speak up, participate, and work for civil rights, to speak truth to power

    Background about his speech:

     Year of Revolutions and were still recovering from the blood shed of the Soviet Union’s control
    for:
    - Eastern Europe
    - Poland
    - Romania
     PURPOSE:
     Stir his fellow citizens to take responsibility for their country’s past failures
     Return to moral uprightness
     Prepare for future elections

    We Live in a Contaminated Moral Environment

     Learned not to believe in anything


     Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and
    dimensions
     Previous Regime:
     Arrogant and intolerant ideology
     Reduced man to a force of production and nature to a tool of production
     Contaminated moral atmosphere
     Refers to people who helped to perpetuate the totalitarian system
    - Co-creators

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