PARIS - France's Communists, eager to shed the last remnants of their Stalinist past now that they are in government, have publicly apologised to former party officials purged in the 1960s for denouncing Stalin's crimes.
The party leader, Mr Robert Hue, travelled on Sunday to the home in eastern France of one of the most famous victims of the purges, Mr Maurice Kriegel Varimont (83), to voice regrets and pledge a rewrite of the party's history.
