President Klaus attends WWII ceremony in Moscow

On Monday, the Czech President Vaclav Klaus joined his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and over 50 other world leaders for a ceremony in Moscow marking the victory over Nazi Germany. Some critics, including former President Vaclav Havel, have questioned the attendance of Central and Eastern European leaders, pointing out that the liberation from Nazi Germany by the Red Army resulted in several decades of authoritarian Soviet communist rule. President Klaus said that the liberation of Czechoslovakia and the later political development in Central Europe could not be confused.