The EU bigwig at the heart of Labour's "surrender" deal on Gibraltar was "immersed" in Marxism and was a member of a leading Communist Party, a bombshell report shows.
Maros Sefcovic, the 58-year-old Slovak at the head of Brussels's trade commission, was a member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and fled his homeland for five years to Moscow just before the Iron Curtain fell.
Now a self-proclaimed socialist, Sefcovic secured three approvals from party members in 1989 on his quest to "deepen his knowledge of Marxism–Leninism".
But he was at the centre of Britain's recent deal with Brussels to place Spanish boots on the Rock of Gibraltar - dubbed a surrender by furious Tories on Friday morning.
A new report has unearthed Maros Sefcovic's bid to join the Czechoslovak Communist Party
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"When I met with both [Spanish Foreign Minister Jose] Albares and [British Foreign Secretary David] Lammy last months, we all recognised a clear momentum - and agreed that the time had come to get the job done," the ex-communist said after the Gibraltar deal.
Now, a damning report from Facts4EU has cast light on Sefcovic's history at the heart of the Eastern Bloc.
In 1985, he left his home country, the Soviet puppet state of Czechoslovakia, and headed east to Moscow.
In going east to Russia, Sefcovic did not suffer the fate of hundreds of his fellow countrymen and women who had been killed attempting to cross the border in the opposite direction.
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Facts4EU has unearthed an image of Sefcovic's application form to the Czechoslovakian Communist Party
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The EU Vice President went on to spend five years at elite university the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
Two years after his arrival, he submitted his application for formal membership of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
"In those days, party membership was a serious accolade and was not granted to everyone," the report says.
"Fortunately the National Archive in Prague holds records of such people," it jabs - and has unearthed an image of his application form.
PICTURED: Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Albares, Maros Sefcovic, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Gibraltarian Chief Minister Fabian Picardo pose after the 'surrender' deal
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In August 1968, the "Prague Spring" was brutally crushed by Russia, when tanks and some 500,000 troops from the Warsaw Pact invaded.
The Soviet Union was able to then bolster the power of the hardline KSC, of which Maros Sefcovic was a member.
As the report says, "at the time that he left for Moscow, the brutal suppression of the flowerings of a liberal society, including many deaths as a result, in his home country were of course completely fresh in the minds of its citizens".
It adds: "This did not deter Sefcovic on his journey to become more immersed in the study of Marxism-Leninism in the capital city of the country which was the author of the violence and oppression."
Sefcovic isn't alone in his hard-left leanings at university, however.
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