"Four thousand in 50 years isn't many," she said of political prisoners during the Communist years.

In the Communist years, politics was a sham.

You were born in Romania during its dreary Communist years.

"All of the mechanism that was built up during the Communist years here to control the population needs to be rooted out, and it hasn't been."

Czechs describe this as a reaction to the repression of contact with foreigners in the Communist years.

That comes from the Communist years when they didn't have the skills or the money to modernize.

During the Communist years you could walk the streets safely - the only people who would bother you were the police.

Some - Poland included - look back to the Communist years.

The king's seal, a double-headed eagle, remains on the wall above the office fireplace, as it did throughout the Communist years.

During the Communist years, there was no direct international access.