Miroslav Štěpán

Miroslav Stepan (* August 5, 1945 in Louny, † March 23, 2014 in Prague) was a Czech politician, communist activist and an official of the Komunistická strana Československa ( Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ).

Life

Stepan was an agricultural engineer by profession. During normalization Miroslav Stepan 1974 to 1977 was secretary of the city committee of the SSM, the youth organization of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Since 1986, since 1986 he was a leading official of the city committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Prague, then a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. Miroslav Stepan was also active as a leader of the Lidové milice ( People's Militia ).

His decisions are attributed that led to the crackdown on the demonstrations in 1988 and 1989, took place, including the November 17, 1989.

As a result of the so-called Velvet Revolution Miroslav Stepan was end of November 1989 forced to resign from all offices. In December 1989 he gave up his seat in the Federal Assembly. On 5 December, he was expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. After he was arrested and sentenced to two and a half years, he was released from prison in October 1991.

He was since their re- establishment in 1995, Secretary-General of Komunistická strana Československa ( 1995-1999 Strana československých komunistů ), which refers to the teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.

In 2004, Miroslav Stepan, the delegation of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( 1995), the Congress of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who chaired Gennady Zyuganov. In an interview to the editor of the Czechoslovak Communists Štěpán the KPRF and the KSČM accused of betraying the communist ideals and witnessed the counter-revolution. Miroslav Stepan said these parties from the Communist character.