Czechoslovakia


The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Too Loud a Solitude
The Metamorphosis
HHhH
The Glass Room
The Lost Wife
Gottland
I Served the King of England
The Trial
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
War with the Newts
The Good Soldier Švejk
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Closely Watched Trains
Mariusz Szczygieł
A Czech could either work for the Germans, or work for the Germans.
Mariusz Szczygieł

Christopher Hitchens
And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews. And not just a great number, but a great proportion. The proportion was especially high in the secret police and 'security' departments, where no doubt revenge played its own part, as did the ideological attachment to Communism that was so strong among internationally minded Jews at that period: Jews like David Szmulevski. There were reasonably strong indigenous Communis ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

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