Vaclav Havel was born in 1936 into a middle-class Czechoslovakian family with intellectual and artistic interests. He showed early enthusiasm for reading, writing, and the theatre. But after the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in the late 1930’s followed by the Communist takeover in the 1940’s, he was expelled from some schools and denied entry into others because of his upper-class “bourgeois” background. Because of his class background his employment opportunities were also severely limited. First he worked as a chemist’s assistant while also publishing his first critical essays. Between 1957 and 1959, Havel entered the army as was required. In
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