Czechs, Slovaks, Poles firm in support for Cuban dissidents 15.4.2005 - Rob Cameron The U.N. Human Rights Commission last week passed a U.S.-sponsored proposal condemning Cuba for its record on human rights. The vote has been widely welcomed in Central Europe where countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland are highly critical of Fidel Castro and his regime. But it wasn't always so. Before 1989 the countries of Central and Eastern Europe were close allies of fellow Communist Cuba. The voice of former Czech President Vaclav Havel, speaking in a recorded message to a crowd of people in...