71.   Czech former political prisoners Wednesday snubbed Prime Minister Milos Zeman over his communist past by refusing to invite him to a ceremony unveiling a memorial to victims of communism.

72.   Videnov represented a new generation of Bulgarian politicians within a Socialist Party trying to shake off its communist past.

73.   Zeman presents his party as a European social democrat grouping, with no links to the communist past.

74.   Romania has taken longer to shake off its communist past than many of its East European neighbours.