When the Macedonian government began its post-communist programme of returning property nearly a decade ago, it was found that there were no heirs to much of the former Jewish property.
By 1956, countries in the Soviet sphere of influence had achieved a technological advantage and were able to broadcast Communist television programmes into Finland, the eastern border regions and more isolated geographic areas of West Germany and Austria, where residents had coverage from an East German broadcast with a pro-Communist point-of-view.
In the Czech Republic, Barrandov, a digital channel, has been attracting viewers with repeats of communist-era programmes like "Thirty Cases of Major Zeman" (see picture), a crime series launched in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion in 1968 to improve the poor image of the police.
At the hearing, the television directors were forced to defend suggestions that researchers on the programme had communist sympathies – allegations they had never previously heard.
Echoing Marx's Communist Manifesto, the Transitional Programme ended with the declaration "Workers men and women of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International.
Witness state-supported athletes, Nazi repression of Jewish sportsmen, and 20 years of communist-bloc drug-programmes.
This was the equivalent of ordering Engels to check up whether Marx's Communist Manifesto was a practical programme.
The party's programme is defiantly communist: "We consider ourselves part of the worldwide anti-war and anti-globalisation movement," its website proclaims.
It has comic moments: "Do you have a regime?" his interviewer, interested in his exercise programme, asks a communist ex-president.
Others were detained in overcrowded centres, tortured and executed as part of a programme to create a communist agrarian utopia.
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