Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, few remember the ruthless tactics communists used to consolidate power.
Others dismiss communist barbarity as typical of backward countries, as though they could not happen in advanced societies.
This is the account of a survivor of democratic Czechoslovakia's 1948 communist coup d' tat and concentration camps.
Secret allegiances in parliament, private militias terrorizing the citizens, and the infiltration of intelligence and law enforcement .
