The death of Vaclav Havel last week seemed to mark the passing of a special species in postwar European politics: the anti-totalitarian dissident, ?living in truth,? who with petitions and samizdat nurtured a democratic revolution that made the continent ?whole and free.?
Only it turns out that not everyone, like Havel, lived happily ever after. Russia returned to dictatorship a decade ago, and Ukraine is following. Belarus was never free. And now something is happening that no one ever contemplated in the days when Havel was leading the states of Central Europe into the European Union and NATO. One of them ? Hungary ? is returning to autocracy.
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