It was back in 1949, as every good Communist knows, that those wicked Americans dropped the first Colorado beetles on Czechoslovakia's burgeoning potato fields. The diligent, hardheaded commissars of Horazdovice district were not panicked by the sly American trick. At the first notice of potato bugs in their district, they sent for a young local plant pathologist named Cestmir Novacek and ordered him to liquidate the nasty, crawling little capitalists. For five years everything went fine, and the "invasion" took little toll of Horazdovice's potatoes. This year, however, the potato harvest in...
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