He fought pro-fascist villains, tracked down heinous criminals, and foiled the dastardly plans of anti-communist dissidents. With his stern, chiseled face peering out from under a green and red police officer’s cap, Major Zeman was communist Czechoslovakia’s answer to James Bond. In the 1970s and 1980s, millions of Czechs and Slovaks watched him defend law and order in their socialist […]
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