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Lustration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lustration has two meanings, historical and modern: Historically, it was the term for various ancient Greek and Roman purification rituals. More recently, in the period after the fall of the various ...
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Lustration in Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lustration in Poland refers to the policy of limiting the participation of former communists, and especially informants of the communist secret police (from the years 1944–90), in the successor gover...
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LUSTRATION LAWS; A. Czechoslovakia (The Czech Republic and Slovakia); B. Hungary; C. Albania; D. Bulgaria; E. The Baltics; F. Poland; G. Romania; H. Russia; I. Ukraine; J. Belarus; K. Central Asian Republics: Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan;
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Lustration laws in action: The motives and evaluation of lustration policy in the Czech Republic and Poland (1989-2001) 2003 ... Law and Social Inquiry ... School of Geography, Politics and Sociology...
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Two motions to delay the hearings on Poland's lustration laws were turned down. ... The Tribunal responded by saying that if the Parliament could pass 72 amendments to laws in one day, he could read 200 pages of file in one night. ... Some 700,000 people total are expected to be required to file lustration statements.
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The purpose of this overview is to point out what has been done in this respect in the countries in the region, i.e. what sort of laws envisaging the communist past exist, if a lustration law has been adopted or is under way and how the general debate on the topic develops.
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But the fact remains that lustration laws were motivated from the sound reasoning that the presence of former secret police officers or informers within the structures of a new government could have a destabilizing influence, and bring about a revival of authoritarian practices.
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