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The world with Václav Klaus

06 Nov 2009

Speakers: Václav Klaus, Peter M Robinson

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In retelling his experience of living through the Velvet Revolution, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the lifting of the Iron Curtain, Czech Republic president Václav Klaus offers his views on what students today need to understand about life under communism. He also defends his opposition to the idea of a European superstate and compares the ideology of environmentalism and global warming alarmism with the ideology of communism. Finally, he ponders the question of what lessons from history his grandchildren are learning.

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