After 1989, several post-communist countries, Czechoslovakia among them, had to face its communist past. The main dilemma: to forgive or to retaliate to those who contributed to forty years long oppression of fundamental human rights was not an easy one. As many arguments were for as many against both, retaliation and forgiveness. Lack of evidence, burden of collective guilt raised questions about retaliation. However, forgiveness entailed risk of undermining fragile democracy.
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