Czech Communists shuffle off into history. High time. Remember Klement Gottwald? The Czechoslovak Communist Party leader’s grim visage adorned banknotes until 1989. Folded the right way, the Kremlin henchman could be made to look like ET. But his rule was no laughing matter, with execution and hard labor in the uranium mines awaiting those who resisted the regime’s unloving embrace.
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Edward Lucas: Goodbye Gottwald
A woman leaves a polling station in Prague, Czech Republic, on October 9, 2021, during the general elections that are held on Oct. 8 and 9, 2021.
