Prague,1 September – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience expresses its deepest concerns for the life of the Russian activist Alexei Navalny who was poisoned by a toxic substance, as confirmed by the Charite Hospital in Berlin. This situation reminds us that non-democratic governments…
Statement on the recent situation in Belarus
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Prague, 18 August – After 30 years of freedom for the majority of post-Communist Europe, it is very significant that democratic development brought to the people of those countries a much higher quality of life, freedoms and further possibilities, like participation…
Platform welcomes opening of an investigation into the killings on the former Iron Curtain in Romania
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Prague, 14 August – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC) welcomes the initiative led by the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER), which opens an investigation in Romania to…
The Platform’s Statement on Vladimir Putin’s Article about the 75th Anniversary of WWII
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Prague, 8 July – Statement of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience on the recent article by Vladimir Putin: The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II issued on 18 June in the media. In his…
A new book about the 1950 Yugoslav peasants’ revolt
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Prague, 15 June – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience (PEMC) released its first monograph written by the author Mrs. Vera Kržišnik-Bukić: The 1950 Cazin Rebellion – from Truth to Justice (translated by John Farebrother). The book presents to English readers a less-known story of…
The 12th NNW Film Festival – international documentary film competition invitation
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Prague, 2 June – The 12th NNW Festival will take place in Gdynia, Poland on 24 – 27 September 2020. For the second time the international documentary film competition will take place as well. We cordially invite all filmmakers to…
First rehabilitation by a Czech court of refugee killed on the Iron Curtain
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Prague, 27 May – On 25 May 2020 the Czech district court in Tachov fully rehabilitated Mr Gerhard Schmidt and his family. After the case of Hartmut Tautz, who was fully rehabilitated by a Slovak court in Bratislava in 2017, now the Czech Republic has…
Platform releases its online educational tool focusing on human rights
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Prague, 12 May – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience is releasing for students its online educational tool – a series of short educational videos in English illustrating violations of human rights by the Nazi and the Communist totalitarian…
Statement on the issue of the Lenin statue in Gelsenkirchen
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Prague, 3 April – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience hereby expresses its concern regarding the announced erection of a statue of Vladimir Lenin in the German city of Gelsenkirchen. Lenin created the Soviet totalitarian state, killing millions during…
Platform Reader presentations in all regions in Slovakia
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Prague, 3 March – For the first time the Platform of European Memory and Conscience presented its international Reader Lest We Forget (Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe) and the board game (Across the Iron Curtain) to students of different types of secondary schools in…
The 72nd anniversary of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia commemorated in Prague
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Prague, 25 February 2020. The Platform president Łukasz Kamiński together with Managing Director Peter Rendek and Platform expert team member Mr Miroslav Lehký commemorated the anniversary of the Communist coup of 25 February 1948 at a solemn gathering on Nerudova Street in Prague. At this site,…