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Memories Should Not Fade
Memories Should Not Fade

Author(s): Luboš Dobrovský
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Přítomnost

Summary/Abstract: Despite their recent fall in popularity, the Czech Communists still represent a threat to our political stability. "[...] We often hear that even during the communist regime, the Czechoslovak Communist Party was a flexible pluralistic entity, capable of admitting to ist mistakes and changing course. But what such an argument seemingly fails to consider is, that any incidences of the communist party admitting to its misdeeds, only came about as a result of unwanted, oft brutally suppressed, public scrutiny and pressure that ended in the toppling of the former regime.[...]"

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 20-21
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: English