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Article: Star Czech. (interview with Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus) (Cover Story)

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September 1, 1994
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Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus, architect of the Czech Republic's "economic miracle," dazzles foreign investors with his sharp wit, salesmanship, and command of policy. Critics dismiss central Europe's most visible and acerbic leader as "Mr. Sound Bite." CE separates image from reality.

Alone among such former Eastern bloc countries as Lithuania, Poland, and Hungary, where former Communists have returned to power in the guise of social democrats, the Czech Republic endures in its commitment to free markets and anti-interventionism. Why this is so has something to do with history. After th fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Central Europe's planned economies faced similar ...

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