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Did Max van der Stoel meet Jan Patočka on 1 March 1977 or in January 1977 — and does the archive's own 1996 recording settle the discrepancy?

capture promoted 2026-09-03 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, van-der-stoel
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
StB interrogators pulled Jan Patočka in for a long interrogation immediately after his 1 March 1977 meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel; he died roughly two weeks later

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
Jan Sokol (2020): it would be 'an exaggeration' to say the StB killed Patočka — interrogations 'maybe accelerated' a death the regime itself reportedly regretted

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, cold-war, charter-77, patocka, stb
Did Max van der Stoel meet Jan Patočka on 1 March 1977 or in January 1977 — and does the archive's own 1996 recording settle the discrepancy?

question open 2026-08-26 · czechoslovakia, charter-77, patocka, sokol, verification