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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…

Mikulov, Prague, 23 November – The commemoration act and the international conference “The Iron Curtain inside us” accompanied the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain event which was held on 22 November in Mikulov, Southern Bohemia. The…

Platform invited to the 8th Congress of the Croatian Society of Victimology

Zagreb, Prague, 8 November – The Platform Executive Board member and the director of the Study Centre for National Reconciliation in Slovenia Dr. Andreja Valič Zver attended the 8th Congress of the Croatian Society of Victimology which was held on 8 –…

Prague, 12 November – At its annual Council of Members meeting held on 3 – 6 November in Tirana, Albania, the Platform of European Memory and Conscience updated its Statute and re-elected the President, the Executive Board representatives and one…

Prague, 8 November – On 7 November the Appeal for a Nuremberg of Communism (Bukovsky-Cristin document) was introduced in the Senate of the Italian Republic in Rome by Prof. Renato Cristin, Prof. Roberto de Mattei, Dr. Dario Fertilio, senator Adolfo Urso, senator Lucio Malan and Vito Comencini.…