Volume 41, Number 3 · February 3, 1994
On Rita Klímová (1931–1993)
By Václav Havel, Translated from the Czech by Paul Wilson
The life of Rita Klímová, who died shortly after Christmas of leukemia, mirrored in a remarkable way the turbulent history of our country. She was the daughter of Stanislav Budín, an important Czech journalist who was expelled from the Communist Party in the 1930s. He emigrated to the United States with his family just before the outbreak of World War Two. As a result, Rita spent an important part of her childhood in New York City. In 1946, the family returned to Prague and Rita attended high school and university, where she studied economics, a subject she eventually taught at the Charles University. She was dismissed from her teaching post after the Soviet invasion in 1968, and expelled from the Communist Party in 1970.
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