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Article: Can communist crimes be punished? (demands to rectify totalitarian injustices in Czechoslovakia)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- May 25, 1992
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WHAT HASN'T happened yet to Communism in Eastern and Central Europe is perhaps just as amazing as what has: none of its crimes were punished. Yet even in little Czechoslovakia those were no petty crimes. During the Communists' reign, 253 executions were carried out following political trials (only the USSR had more), and there were a quarter of a million political prisoners, of whom an estimated ten thousand died of torture and mistreatment in jail. The list, as presented at a conference on Communist crimes held last October in Prague, goes on and on. So let's make it short: Who was punished?
"For the entire forty-year period of the totalitarian rule: a bunch ...