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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Some Histories Stay Secret, but not Entirely Silent: Dealing with the Communist Past in Central and Eastern Europe
Abstract: From 2004 onwards, a second wave of lustration proposals emerged throughout Central and Eastern Europe, at a time when EU accession already started. Among the post-communist states, Poland, already an EU member state, extended the purpose of its previous lustration law in 2006. The same year marked the heated...
