Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Poland's Gdansk renames street after Vaclav Havel

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Gdansk — the birthplace of Poland's Solidarity movement — has renamed a street after Vaclav Havel to honor the Czech anti-communist icon deeply revered by Poles.

Officials in the city, the home of Poland's own anti-communist icon Lech Walesa, inaugurated Vaclav Havel Avenue on Friday, the same day the Czech playwright and president was being laid to rest in his …

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