…while Klaus announces plans to publish work on communism and developments in the last two decades

Meanwhile, Mr Klaus has announced plans to publish a book looking at communism, the fall of that system 20 years ago, and developments since then. In a recent newspaper article he said that it was wrong to believe that the road to freedom and democracy over the last two decades had not been handled well. The president also says the role of individuals in bringing about the end of communism is overrated; he says the Eastern Bloc’s regimes collapsed after reaching a state of exhaustion.