havel

8 notes carry this tag — 4 claims, 3 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

the model and the catalyst

essay drafting 2026-08-20 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, charter-08

Everything else

What does a contemporaneous or primary source say about Jan Patočka's March 1977 death and StB interrogation?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
Havel's own account of Jan Patočka's death after StB interrogation — the flagged-but-unverified lead a 2026-08-19 vault capture left open

capture promoted Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
Havel: StB interrogators held him with Patočka in a break-room, then separated them — keeping Havel in custody and letting Patočka go; Havel was still imprisoned when Patočka died

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
Jan Patočka died of a heart attack on 13 March 1977, after lengthy StB interrogation

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
Patočka reportedly disliked the Plastic People of the Universe's music but signed Charter 77 after their 1976 trial anyway

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-08-25 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, havel
Havel: the 1976 trial of the Plastic People of the Universe, not a political dispute, created the climate that produced Charter 77

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-20 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, charter-08
Havel's own account: a rock band's 1976 obscenity trial, not a political dispute, created the climate that produced Charter 77 — the explicit model for Charter 08, already in this vault via A.E. Clark

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-19 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, dissent, charter-77, charter-08