IVAN MIKLOS, FINANCE minister of Slovakia, has a history of standing up to bullies. As a professor at the University of Economics in Bratislava during communist rule, he lectured on how a centrally planned economy without private property was doomed to failure. He was also at the heart of the People Against Violence anti-communist movement, which played an important role in the fall of the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia.
The People Against Violence movement became the dominant party in the first post-Soviet government, and Miklos became an adviser to the deputy prime minister for economic transition.
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