Václav Vaško

Václav Vaško (26 April 1921 – 20 May 2009) was a Czech diplomat, human rights activist, author of books dealing with the history of the Catholic Church during the Soviet occupation and communist dictatorship, and a former political prisoner of the communist regime.

Václav Vaško in 1994

He was awarded the Medal of Merit by President Václav Havel on 28 October 1998. He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[1]

Works
  • Neumlčená (a chronicle of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia during the communist dictatorship, written in the 1980s, published in 1990 in two volumes)
  • Kardinál Tomášek (1994, co-authored with Jan Hartmann, Bohumil Svoboda et al.)
  • Ne vším jsem byl rád (1999, 2001)
  • Dům na skále
    • Církev zkoušená (2004)
    • Církev bojující (2007)
    • Církev vězněná (2008)[2]
  • Likvidace řeckokatolické církve (2007)
gollark: Yes. You swap the data for 7 with the data for 8, and it acts as if it is 8 because it's basically 8.
gollark: They're actually bigints with a lot of data and a reference count and stuff.
gollark: Python has a cache of integers between -5 and 127 or something.
gollark: ```python>>> import sys>>> from ctypes import *>>> memmove(id(7), id(8), sys.getsizeof(7))140001623574848>>> 78```
gollark: Hold on.

References
  1. "Prague Declaration - Declaration Text". Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism. 3 June 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 February 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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