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This magazine is the English version of selected articles published in the pages of the review Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History), which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. It is almost two years since I last wrote an introduction to these articles. At that time my words had an obvious theme: 25 years had elapsed since the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. It was an opportunity to reflect on where we had got to from that fateful moment and what we actually know now about a recent past that continues to influence us greatly to this day.
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You have just opened the third edition of the English-language magazine Behind the Iron Curtain. It is comprised of articles published in the last three years (2012–2014) in the journal Paměť a dějiny (Memory and History), which is issued by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. I write this introduction just as the Czech Republic and other former Soviet Bloc states are marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain and systems based on the hegemony of communist or socialist parties. It is an occasion to assess how far we have come from that fateful moment and how much we know about the path taken by society in the Czech Republic and elsewhere in the 20th century (particularly in the period of totalitarian repression), how it changed society, and what insights can be gleaned from it today.
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One of the important functions of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes is international cooperation. For us, this represents not only a source of information for concrete research and documentation projects and support for individual specialist growth, but it is also an irreplaceable system corrective of all of our work. Responsible and purposeful work in all the areas we have been charged with by law, support for democratisation processes, the systematic exchange of experience in the field of anti-totalitarian prevention – that is our mission, both in our own Central and Eastern European region and in the context of the European Union and beyond, particularly within the framework of boosting Euro-Atlantic ties and, for instance, bilateral relations with Israel.
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One of the most important tasks of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes is the presentation of our research findings on an international level. With the passing in the Czech Republic of Act No. 181/2007 Coll. and the creation of the Institute and Security Services Archive, our country finds itself in a unique situation providing for the comparatively rapid attainment of a similar level of social discourse as in other post Communist countries which established parallel institutions in recent years.
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U Kraljevoj Sutjesci, stolnom mjestu bosanskih kraljeva i višestoljetnom staništu franjevaca, priređen je 17. i 18. listopada 2008. godine znanstveni skup “Stoljeća Kraljeve Sutjeske”. Vanjski povod bila je stota obljetnica izgradnje samostanske i župne crkve po projektu arhitekta Josipa Vancaša (1908). Ta se okolnost pokazala pogodnom prilikom za inventuru višestoljetne povijesti katolika i franjevaca sutješkoga kraja, počevši od vremena bosanske samostalnosti, preko višestoljetne vladavine Osmanlija, austro-ugarskog razdoblja – sve do najnovijeg vremena.
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Franjevačka teologija je u povodu stotinu godina svoga postojanja i djelovanja u Sarajevu (1909-2009) organizirala znanstveni skup i proslavu pod naslovom 100 godina Franjevačke teologije u Sarajevu: 1909.-2009. Znanstveni skup je održan 6. i 7. studenog 2009. u amfiteatru Franjevačke teologije, a 8. studenog – na dan blaženog Ivana Duns Škota, zaštitnika naše Teologije – održana je proslava tako što je svećeničkom euharistijskom slavlju predsjedao provincijal Bosne Srebrene fra Lovro Gavran. Za vrijeme euharistijskog slavlja izvedena je Missa Bosniensis Andrije Pavliča: Bosanska misa posvećena sv. Franji Asiškom, svim nesretnima, ispaćenima i izgubljenima ovoga svijeta, te bosanskim franjevcima i zboru Pontanima, koji je izveo misu. Zbor Pontanima je osnovao profesor naše Teologije fra Ivo Marković. Dirigirao je skladatelj Bosanske mise Andrija Pavlič (inače je dirigent zbora Pontanima Josip Katavić). Sudjelovali su Amila Bakšić, sopran; Zana Staniškovska, alt; Jasmin Bašić, tenor; Ivica Šarić, bas; i Dario Vučić, orgulje. Pokrovitelj Znanstvenog skupa i proslave je bio Željko Komšić, predsjedavajući Predsjedništva BiH.
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Nakon pada Bosne pod otomansku vlast (1463) razrušeni su, spaljeni i napušteni mnogi samostani u Bosni. Jedan od njih je i Lašvanski samostan, koji se nalazio, prema izvješćima bosanskih apostolskih vikara o pohodima Lašvanskoj župi, na Guvnima, naselju današnje dolačke župe. Ne znamo ni koliko je bilo braće u njemu kad je krajem 15. stoljeća stradao ni kamo su nakon njegova stradanja otišli. U nekim šematizmima provincije Bosne Srebrene piše da su odmah nakon toga prešli u Guču Goru.
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This is only for the second time in the history of this edition, that the Yearbook assesses a year which saw a complete political power shift and thus an exchange of those who make and decide on foreign policy. It was an election year, a year of foreign policy accent shift, and a year of institutional and personnel changes (not only) at the Foreign Ministry.
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If the foreign policy of any state is to be successful it must have its own form, its own language and be part of public – institutionally framed – discourse. There is, however, no such ‘institutional umbrella’ covering all those responsible for the formulation and implementation of our foreign policy as well as those in Slovakia who are not indifferent to it. Moreover, there is often little will to open such an umbrella ‘over’ our foreign policy. Even the political parties do not pay much attention to foreign policy and thus issues of foreign policy are only occasionally part of the general public discourse. It is, however, the open, coherent and constant exchange of views, opinions, know-how, arguments from experience and/or long-term plans among the groups mentioned that play a crucial role in planning foreign policy. All of these reasons keep convincing us that we need to regularly evaluate where Slovak foreign policy currently is, which important events occurred in the preceding year and what challenges lie ahead of Slovakia in the near future.
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