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Current AffairsGovernment agrees compensation for political prisoners, including those from "normalisation" era
During the Communist era there were over two and a half million political
prisoners in Czechoslovakia. They were sent to both prisons and labour
camps, often - especially in the 1950s - in the most appalling conditions.
Fifteen years after the fall of Communism, the Czech government has finally
decided to pay compensation to former political prisoners. Furthermore, it
has reversed a previous decision and now wants to also compensate those
who were imprisoned in the post-1968 period known as
"normalization".
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Current AffairsDaughter of political prisoner speaks out about legacy of Stalinist terror
Thousands were jailed and hundreds were executed during the terror of
Stalinism in 1950s Czechoslovakia. But, what was it like to be a child
whose parents were jailed during those times? Czech American Jana Svehlova
knows just what it was like- her father was a political prisoner and she
herself has just written a Ph.D dissertation on the issue.
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