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From Velvet Revolution to velvet justice: The case of Slovakia
- Author: Nadya Nedelsky
- Main Title: After Oppression , pp 390-417
- Publication Date: January 2013
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/82442411-en
- Language: English
During the first 15 years after the 1989 “Velvet Revolution”, Slovakia’s approach to transitional justice made it an outlier among formerly Communist countries. More than most, it seemed disposed towards forgiving and forgetting the injustices of the preceding regime. Whereas Czechoslovakia quickly instituted restitution laws, Slovakia (which split from the Czech Republic in 1993) carried out very little lustration, has prosecuted only one former regime official to date (and suspended the sentence) and was the last country in the region to open the Communist-era secret police files to the citizenry. This contrasts sharply with the Czech Republic’s stringent approach to the same past regime. That said, in late 2004, Slovakia began to employ a new strategy – publishing information about the former secret police online – that has proved more successful than others in sparking a substantive societal conversation about the past.
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ISBN (PDF):
9789210558938
Book DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18356/abdf8199-en
Related Subject(s):
Human Rights and Refugees
Sustainable Development Goals:
Countries:
Slovakia
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