POLI 432 Lecture 12: POLI432 – 12
21 Aug 2019
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The most actively engaged ones are the ones which created so called memory institutions usually initiated and run by so called mnemonic warriors , who really really wanted to reveal the truth about their past: ex. Institute for the study of totalitarian regimes (slovakia and czech republic) Truth telling (security files, truth commissions etc: rehabilitation cleaning names of persecuted people, restitution, lustration, trials, post-communist iconoclasm, ex. The pink tank (prague) soviet war memorial: empty pedestals in budapest (like a counter monument!) Statues taken down as symbol of moving on . Getting rid of old soviet symbols like chopping off lenin"s head or taking him down: iconic symbol. [[[[a bunch of other examples]]]: remembering the victims of communism, how do you acknowledge the crimes of the previous regime, ex.
