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and disqualification, taking into account that people were often blackmailed to become informants or coerced into providing information without realising its true recipient. Lustration law in Hungary (1994–2003) was based on the exposure of compromised state officials, while lustration law in Poland (1999–2005) depended on confession. Lustration law "is a special public employment law that regulates the process of examining whether a person holding certain higher public positions collaborated confidentially with the repressive apparatus of the communist regime." The "special" nature of lustration law refers to its transitional character. As of 1996, various lustration laws of varying scope were implemented in the
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dissident activity, the public attention and condemnation has focused primarily on them rather than on the communist government officials or secret police officers. Moreover, if the past collaboration is contested in a court, the verdict depends to some extent on testimonies of former communist secret police officers who engaged with the alleged informant, thus making those orchestrating the repressions
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Lustration in turn targets former confidential informants of the communist secret police who remain in or apply for political positions or even civil service positions, rather than former communist regular officials. In some countries, however, lustration laws did not lead to indiscriminate exclusion
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There are, however, some paradoxal side effects of the process. For example, in spite of the fact that some informants were coerced or blackmailed into collaboration and may thus be also considered victims themselves, or in some cases despite terminating later the collaboration in favor of genuine
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by making the public opinion aware of the established outcomes through their free dissemination. Another motivation was the fear that undisclosed past confidential collaboration could be used to blackmail public officials by foreign intelligence services of other former Warsaw Pact allies, in
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means that a past role of a confidential collaborator (informant) is alone as such inadmissible from the beginning for criminal prosecution or conviction, thus, lustration allows at least to bring such past collaborators to
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parties are in power. It is claimed that lustration systems based on dismissal or confession might be able to increase trust in government, while those based on confession might be able to promote social reconciliation.
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Depending on jurisdiction, either every positive result or only the one obtained regarding a person who falsely declared otherwise, may trigger consequences varying greatly among jurisdictions, ranging from mere
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Roman David, Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, pp. 183, 209
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between 1989 and 1991, government-sanctioned policies of "mass disqualification of those associated with the abuses under the prior regime" were initiated as part of the wider
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in Central and Eastern Europe is the official public procedure of scrutinizing a public official or a candidate for public office in terms of their history as a
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This article is about political lustration. For the ancient Roman purificatory ceremony from which the modern-day term lustration is derived, see
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The lustration laws in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic were not intended to serve as justice, but to ensure that events such as the
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to purging the person from office and a 10-year exclusion from holding public offices. Various forms of lustration were employed in
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which is the process of barring former communist regular officials from public offices as well as eliminating communist symbols.
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under a Communist-led government. Lustration laws are usually passed right before elections, and become tightened when
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Lustration map of Europe, with green representing some form of lustration; pink no lustration; and grey not a former
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Lustration in general is the process of making something clear or transparent, usually by means of a
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trials, but instead took a non-judicial approach to ensure changes would be implemented.
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Purging the past: The Current State of Lustration Laws in the Former Communist Bloc
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Rohozinska, "Struggling with the Past - Poland's controversial Lustration trials",
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Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
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After the fall of the various European Communist governments with the
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damage to the person concerned. It should not be confused with
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Unlike many neighbouring states, the new government in the
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in 1992, but it was declared unconstitutional by the
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Scrutinizing the communist past of public officials
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Index

decommunization
Lustratio

Warsaw Pact
witting confidential collaborator
informant
secret police
corrupt
political opposition
dissidents
reputation
decommunization
non-retroactivity
moral responsibility
infamy
post-communist

Karnak temple
pharaoh
propitiatory
ancient Roman
lustratio
purification rituals
Revolutions of 1989
decommunization
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Hungary
Macedonia
Albania

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