Milan Bárta: No great thing is done without dirty foam

At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, thousands of pro-Communist refugees from the Greek Civil War found refuge in Czechoslovakia. They brought with them prisoners of war from the ranks of the Royal Army, about whom they did not inform the Czechoslovak leadership. When, after several years, these people tried to return to Greece, the matter threatened to become an international problem. The issue of Greek prisoners of war who were in Soviet bloc countries was taken up by the United Nations. The leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party instructed the Ministry of the Interior to resolve it quickly. Eventually, in late 1952, more than eighty Greeks were arrested and charged with espionage...