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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

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PEMC: 48 former GDR citizens have been rehabilitated by Czech and Slovak courts

13. November 2020

On the occasion of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 2017, The Platform of European Memory and Conscience and the German Union of Victims of Communist Tyranny UOKG called upon former

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30 October: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions

30. October 2020

October 30 is commemorated as the Day of Remembrance Of Victims Of Political Repressions. In 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation declared the date the National Day of Remembrance for

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Remembering the Victims of Soviet Repressions in Belarus

29. October 2020

29 October marks the unofficial day of remembrance for victims of the Soviet repressions in Belarus. On the night of 29-30 October, 1937, more than 100 notable representatives of Belarusian national

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SURVEY: Most of the Estonian society in favour of establishing a communism victims’ museum in Patarei

08. October 2020

According to a sociological survey, commissioned by the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, 55% of Estonian residents support the establishment of the International Memorial Museum for the

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VIDEO: 81 years ago, German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk

22. September 2020

Eighty-one years ago, on 22 September 1939, a joint military parade of German and Soviet armies was held in the occupied city of Brest-Litovsk, following the occupation and dismemberment of Poland.

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22 September is the Resistance Day in Estonia

21. September 2020

The Resistance Day is a public holiday on 22 September in Estonia for the appreciation and commemoration of all the people of Estonia that have resisted against occupying regimes either in words or

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The death of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge executioner revives painful memories of Communist terror

13. September 2020

CNN reported that Kaing Guek Eav, commonly known by his alias, Comrade Duch, died on 2 September at a hospital in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh. "Comrade Duch ran Phnom Penh's S-21 prison, also known

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Map: Aggression in Europe. 81 years since the Hitler-Stalin Pact

23. August 2020

August 23 marks the 81st anniversary of the signing of Hitler-Stalin Pact that paved the way for World War II, which completely changed the map of Europe, and caused the loss of millions. The pact