Czech contemporary history triggers debate at historians' congress - 08-09-2006 - Radio Prague "I would say that the priority is the opening of the archives of the StB, the former Bolshevik secret police, especially involving various historians who are still alive today. They are historians, who are about 70 years old and were Bolsheviks in the 1950s and 1960s. Then, in 1968, they were engaged in the Prague Spring process and were then expelled from power, from the party, and from institutions, and they became dissidents and somehow lived like dissidents more or less actively. Recently, the opened archives revealed that some of them were StB confidants. I am not enthusiastic about it and would prefer to discuss the world situation and 9/11 and so on but I am afraid that Czech history is encapsulated in this past of some members and so on."

An interesting article that elucidates both the past and the present.