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Books of Interest
20th Century Fall of the "...isms" (Communism, Socialism, etc.)

BOOKS : LECH WALESA : A WAY OF HOPE
By LECH WALESA

Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
521 5th Ave.
New York, N.Y. 10175

I had the opportunity, a couple of years ago, to attend a meeting where Lech Walesa was the key note speaker. In this book his story, the history of the Solidarity Movement in Poland and its relation to the fall of Soviet Communism, is a life lesson for all of us and especially important for those under the age of 21. Here is the singular eye witness account, to a system of forced domination and violence, that refutes all that is civil, moral and Godly. And, it happened "on our watch", tolerated by a western philosophy devoid of everything decent...

BOOK : VACLAV HAVEL: DISTURBING THE PEACE

BY KAREL HVIZDALA
Alfred A. Knopf Publishing
New York, N.Y.

BOOK : OPEN LETTERS
Selected Writings 1965 - 1990

By Vaclav Havel
Vintage Books
Random House Inc.
New York N.Y.

Called by Communist leaders, "...one of the truly dangerous ones, the gentle and courteous sort." Vaclav Havel, in his own way, mirrored the role played by Lech Walesa ( in Poland ) in bring about the collapse of Soviet Communism. An important piece of the freedom puzzle...a chink in the armor of the totalitarian system. Havel was a participant in the Prague Spring of 1968, founding spokesman of Charter 77, human rights prisoner, 1989 co-founder of the Civic Forum and then a freely elected President of Czechoslovakia. Always talking and writing about the importance of speaking the TRUTH, he gave literal meaning to the Biblical proverb "...seek the truth and the truth will set you free."