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Representatives of the Museum of 20th Century Memory visited the Platform

Prague, 9 January – The first official working meeting between representatives of the Platform and the newly established Museum of 20th Century Memory in Prague took place in the Platform office on 9 January. The Platform managing director Mr Peter…

Prague, 7 January – How to better understand the current disinformation phenomenon, fake news, alternative news sites, conspiracy theories, etc.? The online project Czechoslovakia in the 1948 – 1989 (dis)information war, provides a unique view on this topic from the perspective of little-known…

The international conference “Road to Freedom” took place in Timişoara on 13 – 14 December

Prague, 16 December – The international conference “Road to Freedom” took place in Timișoara, Romania as a part of the commemoration events marking the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Romanian revolution. While in other countries (Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia),…

Timişoara, 13 December – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience has released the Hungarian version of the reader Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe (Hogy el ne feledjük. A totalitarizmus emlékezete Európában). It is so far the 8th…

70th anniversary of Pitești Communist experiment

Prague, 10 December – In December 2019, 70 years has passed since the cruel re-education programme in Pitești prison started. It was described by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn as “the most terrible act of barbarism in the contemporary world”. The anniversary was…

Prague, Wroclaw – On 26 November a prosecution was initiated in the Czech Republic against persons responsible for murders committed along the Iron Curtain. Among the suspects are former general secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Milouš Jakeš, former Prime…

Press release Prague, 27 November – The Office of the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism of the Police of the Czech Republic officially launched a prosecution on 26 November 2019 against the former high-ranking Communist politburo members for…