Vilnius – The presentation of the Platform “JUSTICE 2.0” project took place in Vilnius, Lithuania on 16 August 2018. The Platform member organisation the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania organised a discussion seminar where the results of the project were presented. The…
Another memorial to the victims of the Iron Curtain unveiled in Germany
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Bockleben, Prague – On 13 August, on the day of the anniversary of construction of the Berlin Wall, the German Union of the Associations of the Victims of Communist Tyranny (UOKG) together with other initiatives (Green Belt) unveiled another new…
The Polish reader presented in Warsaw
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Warszaw, 9 August – The new Polish version of the Platform reader (“Aby pamięć przetrwała. Dziedzictwo totalitaryzmu w Europie“), which was recently published in close cooperation with the Polish IPN took place in the Warsaw Rising Museum on 9 August.…
Voices of the victims notes towards a historiography of anti-Communist literature
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Prague, 27 July -“A hundred years have passed since communists seized power in Russia under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin. The Bolsheviks, as they were called in Russia, looked upon their takeover as only the first step to conquering the…
Polish version of Platform reader Lest We Forget released
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Prague, 10 June – The Platform of European Memory and Conscience in close cooperation with the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland has released the Polish version of the reader Lest We Forget. Memory of Totalitarianism in Europe (“Aby pamięć…
Platform conference “Roads to 20th Century Totalitarianism – the Turning Points” 28 June in Prague
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Prague, 29 June – The international conference “Roads to 20th Century Totalitarianism – the Turning Points”, organised by the Platform of European Memory and Conscience, took place in Prague on 28 June. The purpose of the conference was to examine the…
The experts seminar on Communist archival documents took place in Prague
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Prague – 19 June 2018. The experts seminar “Delimitations of the Communist State Security espionage service files after 10 years” took place today in the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience co-organised the…
Annual commemoration event in former Czechoslovak Communist concentration camp
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Horní Slavkov, Ostrov nad Ohří, 26 May 2018. Platform representative Mr Miroslav Lehký attended annual commemoration events organised by the Confederation of Political Prisoners of the Czech Republic together with the local municipalities in the region of Jáchymov in Northwestern…
First rehabilitation in the Czech Republic for German who attempted to escape across the Iron Curtain
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Prague, 11 May 2018. The District Court in České Budějovice (South Bohemia) has released a breakthrough decision for a former East German refugee who was arrested in 1976 trying to illegally cross the border between Czechoslovakia and Austria. East German…
Platform expresses regret that Mr Jean-Claude Juncker took part in ceremonies commemorating Karl Marx
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Brussels / Prague, 7 May 2018. The European Union is founded on freedom, truth, human dignity and human rights. These values, along with many others, were violated by the Communist system, which was based on Marxist ideology. Therefore, the Platform…
Presentation of Winners of Platform’s Competition for a Proposal of a Pan-European Memorial for the Victims of Totalitarianism in Brussels
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Brussels/Prague 25 April 2018. The presentation of the top-ten ranking entries in the Platform’s competition for a proposal of a Pan-European Memorial for the Victims of Totalitarianism in Brussels took place yesterday afternoon at the European Parliament in Brussels, courtesy…