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Inside Europe: Communism back to haunt Czech music festival.

Rob CameronMay 26, 2016

There’s a whiff of controversy surrounding the Czech Republic’s oldest open-air music festival, after organisers extended an invitation to Milos Jakes. He's the elderly former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Before 1989 Jakes was instrumental in suppressing the festival. Some artists and groups appearing there this year are outraged by the invitation. Rob Cameron reports.

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