Tributes for playwright president Vaclav Havel, 1936 – 2011

First Post Mon 19 Dec 2011, AT 09:00

The dissident writer who led the Czech Republic out of communism has died after years of ill-health

Statue of Lenin in the statue park in Budapest

Hungary and the great myth of 1989

Column Fri 16 Oct 2009, AT 08:42

Many communist leaders did very nicely thank you out of the people’s revolution

Khmer Rouge

Justice finally catches up with Comrade Duch of the Khmer Rouge

News Wed 23 Sep 2009, AT 07:37

Comrade Duch, or Kang Kek Iew, could be the last of the Khmer Rouge to face justice for the genocide of the late 1970s

Picture Past: June 24, 1948, Berlin Airlift

Tiananmen Square myth

Both China and the West have distorted the truth about the Tiananmen Square protests and the massacre that followed

News Wed 3 Jun 2009, AT 01:00

By focusing on the student protests in Tiananmen Square Western liberals ignore the bigger tragedy perpetrated by the Communist Party of China

Battle of the superpowers

'Supermen', Roman Cieslewicz, Paris 1968

 

The Prague Spring, 40 years on

On August 20 1968, Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to bring an end to President Dubcek's liberalising reforms