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Winning design of Patarei Prison’s Victims of Communism Museum announced

05. April 2021

The International Memorial Museum for the Victims of Communism in Patarei Prison (Tallinn, Estonia) will be designed by Motor and KOKO architects . This was the result of a public procurement carried

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PEMC: Czech Ministry of Justice awards compensation to daughter of East German refugee killed on the border of the Iron Curtain in 1977

01. March 2021

For the first time in history, the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic awarded compensation for the death of an East German refugee on the Czechoslovak border in 1977. Gerhard Schmidt, his wife,

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Russia Plans to Outlaw Comparisons Between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany

28. January 2021

Russia plans to unveil legislation that would ban public comparisons between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany by July 2021. According to a statement issued by the Kremlin on 23 January, Russian

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Soviet Terror organiser Lavrentiy Beria statues to be unveiled in Moscow

21. January 2021

Rosatom, a Russian state corporation specialising in nuclear energy, intends to install two “hyperrealist figures” of Lavrentiy Beria, former chief of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs

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The 5 Most-Read Articles of 2020

18. December 2020

Over the year, we have cooperated with authors from different countries and published a wide variety of articles to raise international awareness about the crimes against humanity, committed by

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High representative of the Russian Orthodox Church: Stalin initiated genocide against the people of his own country

10. December 2020

Metropolitan Hilarion (born Grigoriy Alfeyev), chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, spoke about his negative attitude towards the Soviet dictator Joseph

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Czech police declares 11 deceased politburo members fully responsible for the killings of refugees on the Iron Curtain

04. December 2020

On 26 November 2020, the Office for the Documentation and the Investigation of Crimes of Communism, which operates under the Czech police, declared that 11 members of the former Czechoslovak Politburo

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Watch Again: European Historical Memory Conference - ''Past for the Future''

24. November 2020

The ''Past for the Future'' Conference, organised by the Platform of European Memory Conscience, the Collège des Bernardins and the European Economic and Social Committee, took place on the 16th and

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Pictures of the week: 31st Anniversary of Velvet Revolution

20. November 2020

On 17th of November Czechs and Slovaks partook in events to celebrate the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. It is a national holiday in both republics that marks the beginning of the events in