In this context the Czechoslovak Communists ended weapons sales to Israel.

For Mr. Montand though, the most important movie was "The Confession" in 1970, in which he played a loyal Czechoslovak Communist who becomes the victim of a Stalinist purge.

"We wait and we watch," said one Czechoslovak Communist who was purged after 1968.

But like nearly half a million other Czechoslovak Communists who were purged after the 1968 invasion, Mlynar is now only a political spectator.

A group of 43 Czechoslovak Communists involved in Mr. Dubcek's movement recently signed a statement also making a comparison between the "Prague Spring" and Mr. Gorbachev's program.

(In fact, as with all of Münzenberg's books, the real author was one of his aides; in this case, a Czechoslovak Communist named Otto Katz.)

Protest spreads throughout Romania 'We are the people' the demonstrators chant Czechoslovak Communists cut links Ceausescu unleashes carnage.

Another split was the formation of the Party of Czechoslovak Communists (later renamed the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia) led by Miroslav Štěpán.

In "Weapons of Happiness" (1976) Mr. Brenton uses another actual figure, Josef Frank, the Czechoslovak Communist who was hanged after the Prague show trials of 1952.

From 1965 to 1967, a heady time when many Czechoslovak Communists were drawn to reforms, he was completing graduate studies in Prague.