In the attacks on Indian comedian Kunal Kamra, there’s an unsettling echo of Czech writer Milan Kundera’s ‘The Joke’.

President of Czechoslovakia, chairman and secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Of all Western Communists, Gottwald stood closest to new Soviet Boss Malenkov during the funeral ...

today explained why Russia and other Warsaw Pact powers had occupied Czechoslovakia.Tass said Communist Party and government leaders in Prague had asked for "urgent assistance" to meet "the threat ...

Václav Havel, who would become the first democratically elected Czech president in 40 years, endured assassination attempts on his character. On national television, the Communist regime ...

Upon assuming the Czechoslovak leadership in January by becoming first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek quickly declared his intention to push ahead with ...

Every Communist party in Europe is now committed to at least one position which conflicts with Soviet foreign policy. When the "Socialist realists" in Moscow art circles attack Picasso, the French ...