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Martin Zvěřina on the Czechs' belated confrontation with the past

For several years before the fall of communism, the popular Czech pop singer Václav Neckář worked for the communist secret service, the StB. This was revealed on June 25 and has rekindled the debate in the Czech Republic about how to deal with the recent past. Martin Zvěřina says it's high time for a broad public discussion of this issue. "That these 'belated' revelations come as such a surprise is a result of the post-communism doctrine. Back then people adopted the view that the past was the past and that 'the Communists' were to blame for everything. Those who professed their commitment to November 1989 were automatically regarded as one of 'us'. It simply wasn't the done thing to start examining their past. ... But the perpetrators are the only ones to have profited from the illusion - cherished for 20 years - that we were all 'equally innocent'. We can either condemn or pity those who, more or less voluntarily, have recently been exposed as collaborators with the former regime. However, we must admit that the years of pretending to have an 'entirely normal' past were a mistake."

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