Magazine / History / Communist Secret Services / Links | 05/02/2008

Further Information

Here you will find reports, features and opinions on how the communist secret police files are being dealt with in Eastern Europe as well as links to the authorities responsible for addressing the past in individual countries.

General

Overview of lustration laws in Eastern Europe
» La Croix (French)

Judy Dempsey on differing approaches to secret police files in the post-communist countries
» International Herald Tribune (English)

Jens Reich on Tina Rosenberg's book "The Revenge of History" on confronting the past in Eastern Europe (1997)
» Die Zeit (German)


Poland

Alice Bota on lustration in Poland
» Die Zeit (German)

Timothy Garton Ash on Polish lustration
» The Guardian (English)

Wiktor Osiatynski on the case of Stanisław Wielgus
» International Herald Tribune (English)

Nathalie Dubois and Maja Zoltowska on lustration in Poland in May 2007
» Libération (French)

Amélie Poinssot on how the Polish Church is confronting the past
» La Croix (French)


Hungary

Keno Verseck on the Hungarian debate about the communist secret police
» DeutschlandRadio (German)


Bulgaria

Matthew Brunwasser on Bulgaria's approach to its communist-era secret police files
» International Herald Tribune (English)

Martin Woker on Bulgaria's hesitation in opening the secret service archives
» Neue Zürcher Zeitung (German)


Romania

Reinhold Vetter on Romania forgetting its history
» Handelsblatt (German)

David Rennie on the Securitate discussion in Romania prior to EU accession
» Daily Telegraph (English)

Luca Niculescu on "denunciation hysteria” in Romania in 2006
» Libération (French)


Official websites

Homepage of the German Stasi documents agency
» BstU (German/English)

Homepage of the Polish Institute of National Remembrance
» IPN (Polish/English)

Homepage of the National Memory Institute of Slovakia
» UPN (Slovak/English)

The Czech authority for documenting and investigating communist crimes
» UDV (Czech/English/German and other languages)

The Romanian authority for reviewing Securitate files
» CNSAS (Rumanian)

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