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The Institute endorsed the authenticity of the 1950 police report on which the account was based, but indicated that it was not possible to establish some key facts. Kundera denied his involvement saying, "I object in the strongest manner to these accusations, which are pure lies".
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The institute shows exhibitions from other countries and has developed its own touring exhibitions. "Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police" was first shown in 2009 at the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the European Union in Brussels; it was reviewed in the
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who, in 1950, gave information leading to the arrest of a guest in a student hall of residence. The arrested man, Miroslav Dvořáček, was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment as a spy. He served 14 years of his sentence, which included hard labour in a
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commented on the extent to which the communist regime monitored ordinary people. "The Czech secret police went to great lengths to keep track of people who were perfectly innocuous. These weren’t terrorists. They weren’t dangers to the state."
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In 2008, the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes received media attention when a researcher published a controversial claim that the writer
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In 2012, the BBC reported that one of its researchers, who visited Prague in connection with a programme about a putative Czech attempt to compromise
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Historians Péter Apor, Sándor Horváth and James Mark write that the institute is "closely tied to a right-wing anticommunist subculture".
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Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests
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European Public Hearing on European Conscience and Crimes of Totalitarian Communism: 20 Years After
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European Parliament resolution on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe
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Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe
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Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity
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Office for the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism
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or State Security. The institute is a founding member organisation of the
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regimes. The archives will also have documents from the former communist
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Its purpose is to gather, analyse and make accessible documents from the
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Act on Illegality of the Communist Regime and on Resistance Against It
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European Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes
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Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
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Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
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Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism
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Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism
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Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies
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The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
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Government agency
research institute
Prague
Czech Republic
50°5′0.98″N 14°26′36.29″E / 50.0836056°N 14.4434139°E / 50.0836056; 14.4434139
Ladislav Kudrna (historik)
cs
Platform of European Memory and Conscience
ustrcr.cz
Czech
Czech
government agency
research institute
Czech government
Prague
Žižkov
Ryszard Siwiec
Nazi
Communist
totalitarian
secret police
StB
Platform of European Memory and Conscience
Harvard Gazette
Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
Milan Kundera
police informant
uranium mine

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