Current Affairs 20 years ago officials disbanded notorious Communist-era StB secret police

01-02-2010 15:54 | Jan Velinger

Exactly 20 years have passed since officials in Czechoslovakia disbanded the notorious Communist-era secret police the StB. The order came on January 31, 1990 from then interior minister Richard Sacher; within 15 days some 13,000 StB officers had handed in their weapons and their badges.

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