Je ne partage pas cette vision limitée des choses. L'ideologie n'a jamais servi la verité historique. On finit toujours dans des tunnels fermés sur soi.
Il faut connaitre l'histoire contemporaine telle qu'elle s'est passée, ou presque, meme si elle n'est pas favorable a la notre ou a nos interets. Les archives des pays ex-communistes sortent peu a peu de l'ombre. Voici un article qui explique comment les archives communistes Tcheques ont vu le jour. Il y'a toujours des choses a apprendre!
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CZECH SECRET COMMUNIST FILES ONLINE
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1341
AIA Jul 9 2007
Jul 5. Czech Interior Minister's plan to let secret communist files go online opposed by sev-eral parties Bloomberg news agency describes Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer's Open Past plan al-lowing access in the Internet to documents that once landed people in jail or condemned them to work in uranium mines.It reveals that Langer's grandfather was jailed under the communists.
Agency marks that in comparison in Poland, opposition parties have slammed the government's move to publish names of informers, and in Hungary, files are open only to historians. The Czech plan to use the Internet has drawn criticism that unfounded rumors in the files will destroy lives.
Bloomberg notes that the Social Democrats, the largest opposition party, are against Langer's project because they say it violates privacy laws; Communist Party, the third-largest party in parliament, is also opposed. The Open Past project is currently uniting in one archive materials the secret services gathered on as many as 2 million people. This autumn, the Interior Ministry will start uploading files now stacked side by side. The project will initially involve 850,000 cards that contain the name, birth date and other personal data of people who were registered by the secret service, Bloomberg says.
Only about 5 percent of the material in the files will remain classified, because those documents include information still used by the present-day secret services, according to Langer.
The archive will be part of the government-funded Institute of Totalitarian Regime Studies that is being set up this year. Most secret service files are now classified and scattered in various archives, making it diffi-cult and time-consuming for researchers to find individual records.
Langer, who was a student protest leader during the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled communism, appointed another student leader, Pavel Zacek, to head the new archive. Financing for the project will come from the Interior Ministry's budget as well as from funds from the European Union.
The authorities in communist Czechoslovakia used at least 10,000 agents and collaborators to gather information on people who were perceived as threats to the regime, with the targets including hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens.
In another development, former Czech Foreign Minister Jaroslav Sedivy admitted to working with the communist secret police (StB) but said he had no choice, according to a Lidovy noviny report. Sedivy, who served as minister in 1997-1998, worked as an interpreter for Soviet aides in 1953-1954.
