Jiří Svoboda (born 5 May 1945 in Kladno) is a Czech film and TV director, screenwriter and retired politician.

He was leader of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) from 1990 to 1993.

[1] In 1996 Svoboda unsuccessfully ran for the Senate as an independent candidate for the Party of the Democratic Left.

As a journalist he also occasionally participates in historical debates about Czech history up until the Middle Ages.

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