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Current AffairsPrávo: former ‘People’s Prosecutor’ could be released as early as next year
The Czech daily Právo reported this week that a former Communist
prosecutor sent to prison for her role in the judicial murder of democratic
politician Milada Horáková in 1950 could be released next year. Ludmila
Brožová-Polednová, who at 88 is the country’s oldest prisoner, could
have her six-year sentence reduced by half.
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Talking PointThe legacy of communism and the need to reunite European history
Last month Prague hosted a major international conference on the crimes
committed by the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe.
Delegates
from both sides of the former Iron Curtain discussed their research into
atrocities that in many cases had been swept under the carpet for decades.
To give a couple of examples: how many Europeans today remember that up to
130,000 people were executed in the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia in the
aftermath World War II, or that in Romania hundreds of opponents to the
Stalinist regime were shot by the Securitate and buried in unmarked mass
graves between 1948 and 1952? Raluca Grosescu from Romania’s Institute
for the Investigation of Communist Crimes points out that her
institute’s
work has involved a great deal more than just sifting through archives: More
Current AffairsFormer communist prosecutor, jailed for judicial murder, may soon walk free
Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, a former communist prosecutor who is serving
a six year prison sentence for her role in helping to send democratic
politician Milada Horáková to the gallows in a notorious 1950s show
trial, may soon be released. It has now come to light that three
presidential amnesties apply to her case, each lowering her sentence by two
years.
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Current AffairsOn-line project presents stories of people killed at communist Czechoslovakia’s borders
The Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has launched an
on-line research project which will unearth more about the practices of the
country’s communist regime. The institute wants to collect and publish
the personal histories of all those who were killed trying to flee
communist Czechoslovakia.
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