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Current AffairsNewly uncovered footage shows how Communists wanted to depict events of ‘89
Historians at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes have
announced they recently uncovered previously unknown video footage in the
archives on the events of 1989. Footage shot – and heavily manipulated -
by the former regime’s secret police, the StB. Carefully presented images
and a propagandistic voice-over in the “documentary” were meant to give
a diametrically different picture of public demonstrations which shook the
country 21 years ago, suggesting they were a provocation and a sham.
Swiftly overcome by events, though, the Communists soon shelved the
material, and it was subsequently forgotten.
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Current AffairsPreferential votes turn party ballots upside down
In the Czech general elections, voters shook up the political scene by
turning away from the major parties and supporting newcomers. But the
change did not stop there: in a new phenomenon of Czech politics, thousands
of preferential votes sent many of the old, familiar faces in the lower
house home, to be replaced by outsiders from the bottom of party’s
ballots.
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Current AffairsHistorians, police sceptical over ‘StB plot’ explanation for 1984 gas explosion
The authorities have examining claims by a former intelligence agent that a
fatal explosion in 1984 was the work of the communist secret police, the
StB. Twelve people died when a gas mains exploded in the town of Třinec.
The agent claims the whole thing was a secret police plot aimed at
discrediting dissidents around Václav Havel, but historians and police are
sceptical.
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