Ludvik vaculik biography of abraham lincoln

Czech writer and journalist (1926–2015)

Ludvík Vaculík[ˈludviːkˈvatsuˌliːk] (23 July 1926 – 6 June 2015) was a Czechwriter and journalist. He was born in Brumov, Moravian Wallachia. A prominent samizdat writer, he was best known as the author of the "Two Thousand Words" manifesto of June 1968.^[1]

Pre-1968

President of Czechoslovakia and Communist Party leader Antonín Novotný and his fellow conservatives had begun taking a more repressive approach toward intellectuals and writers after the Six-Day War^[2] of June 1967. The following month, Vaculík, then still a member of the Communist Party, attended the Fourth Congress of the Union of Writers. Others in attendance included communist party members Pavel Kohout, Ivan Klíma, and Milan Kundera, as well as non-Party member Václav Havel.^[3] Vaculík made an inflammatory speech in which he rejected the leading role of the party as unnecessary and criticized it for its restr Biography of abraham lincoln book!