ŠTB: Prísne tajné

The power of communism was built on an invisible parallel structure. State security was the political police of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia throughout its existence. Since the creation of its structures in 1945, it persecuted the opponents of the communist regime, imprisoned them, destroyed their lives, and prepared staged trials. After the attempt at a revival process and the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968 during normalization, it suppressed any signs of oppositional views, followed critics of the regime, expelled them from the country, closed them down, members and agents of the StB collected information, all with the sole aim of keeping the communist party in power.