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),…
Hungarian version of the reader Lest We Forget released
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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
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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…
Justice 2.0 – a database of the Iron Curtain victims
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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…
Czech Police launch investigation into former high-ranking Communist officials for shootings on the borders
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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…
Anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain commemorated in Mikulov, Southern Moravia
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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
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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 –…
Platform elected new representatives, paid tribute to the victims of Communism in Shkodra and met with the Albanian Parliament representatives
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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…
Platform supports new Appeal for Nuremberg Trials for Communism
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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.…
Travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” opens at Skhodra, Albania
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Shkodra, 5 November – The Platform’s international travelling exhibition “Totalitarianism in Europe” was opened at the Site of Witness and Memory museum in Shkodra, Albania on 4 November. The opening ceremony was held by Mrs Voltana Ademi, Mayor of Skhodra,…
“How to deal with the past? Memory in a post-truth world” international conference in Kyiv, Ukraine
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Prague, 3 Oct – The President of the Platform Łukasz Kamiński participated in the international conference “How to deal with the past? Memory in a post-truth world” («Як домовитися з минулим? Пам’ять у світі постправди») on 3 October 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He and…