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Navara, Luděk
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
No alternative to confronting the communist past
The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in the Czech Republic has come under repeated attack since it was founded. The Communists call for it to be closed down, while others take issue with the Institute for naming former alleged perpetrators such as Milan Kundera. For its part the liberal daily Mladá fronta Dnes defends the Institute: "The problem is not the Institute or the historians' approach. The main problem is the past which the authority is examining. That disgraceful, and in some cases despicable past which we had to live through and unfortunately are still living through. And which we would have to live through even if the Institute had never existed. The Czech Republic is a country where nothing can be kept secret. Documents like those about Kundera were bound to be found by someone and become public."
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Facing the past in the Czech Republic
Over the past few days the files of the erstwhile communist military intelligence in Czechoslovakia have been opened and the names of those recorded there published on the Internet. Among those listed are the names of four current MPs as well as high-ranking military officers. The files do not reveal whether they indeed worked as spies or were rather victims of the secret police. "Nonetheless the information is interesting," comments the liberal daily Mladá fronta DNES. "Not because of the names but because it reveals how deep the quagmire was into which the communist regime led us. ... Let us wait until the members of parliament have opened all the files, as they have promised to do. This is the best thing that can be done with them."
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