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'''Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes''' are reports and proceedings of the European public hearing organised by the Slovenian Presidency <ref>[http://www.mp.gov.si/fileadmin/mp.gov.si/pageuploads/2005/PDF/publikacije/Crimes_committed_by_Totalitarian_Regimes.pdf [[European Union|European]] Public Hearing on "Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes”] Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (January–June 2008) and the [[European Union|European]] Commission</ref> of the Council of the European Union (January–June 2008) and the European Commission.<ref>[http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/08/230&type=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en EUROPA EU. Press Releases-Brussels]</ref> The Hearing was organised in response to the request made by the ''Justice and Home Affairs Council'' of the European Union on 19 April 2007.

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Edited by Peter Jambrek<ref>[http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc93/EDOC6913.htm Council of Europe-Parliamentary Assembly]</ref> and published by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union Crimes, the reports and proceedings research and investigate gross and large scale [[human rights]] violations committed during the reign of totalitarian regimes in [[Europe]].

 

 

 

[[File:Barroso and Jansa 2007.JPG|right|thumb|The president of the EU Commission, [[José Manuel Durão Barroso]] and the Slovenian Prime Minister, [[Janez Jansa]], in 2007.]]Edited by [[Peter Jambrek]]<ref>[http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc93/EDOC6913.htm Council of Europe-Parliamentary Assembly]</ref> and published by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union Crimes, the reports and proceedings research and investigate gross and large scale [[human rights]] violations committed during the reign of totalitarian regimes in [[Europe]].

There were four sessions at the Hearing:  

There were four sessions at the Hearing:  

*What lessons can be drawn from successful experiences?

*What lessons can be drawn from successful experiences?

*How to achieve reconciliation?

*How to achieve reconciliation?

The preface was written by the Slovenian Minister of Justice [[Lovro Šturm]], and the introduction by [[Jacques Barrot]], Vice-President of the European Commission for Justice, Freedom and Security. Countries that were involved were: [[Estonia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Romania]], [[Slovenia]], [[Poland]] and [[Spain]].

The preface was written by the Slovenian Minister of Justice '''Lovro Sturm''', and the introduction by Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the European Commission for Justice, Freedom and Security. Countries that were involved were: [[Estonia]], [[Lithuania]], [[Romania]], [[Slovenia]], [[Poland]] and [[Spain]].

==Topics and chapters==

==Topics and chapters==

I. HISTORY, CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES

I. HISTORY, CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES

* Historical justice for Europe: why, when and how?

* Historical justice for Europe: why, when and how?

* Suggestions on assessment of totalitarian [[communism]].<ref>'''Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy''' by [[Carl Joachim Friedrich]] & Zbigniew Brzezinski.

* Suggestions on assessment of totalitarian [[Communists|communism]].<ref>'''Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy''' by Carl Joachim Friedrich & Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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* The making of the communist regime in Slovenia and [[Yugoslavia]].

* The making of the communist regime in Slovenia and Yugoslavia.

* Totalitarian regimes in Slovenia in the 20th century.

* Totalitarian regimes in Slovenia in the 20th century.

* Characteristics of the judicial system in Slovenia between 1945 and 1951.

* Characteristics of the judicial system in Slovenia between 1945 and 1951.

*Poland – the victim of two totalitarian regimes.

*Poland – the victim of two totalitarian regimes.

*The Securitate legacy – terror in Romania.

*The Securitate legacy – terror in Romania.

*A topic doomed to oblivion: foreign prisoners in Soviet custody –  with special regard to the fate of [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]] civilian internees.

*A topic doomed to oblivion: foreign prisoners in Soviet custody –  with special regard to the fate of [[Hungary|Hungarian]] civilian internees.

*Repression over the Slovenian people by the German [[Nazism]].

*Repression over the Slovenian people by the German Nazism.

*Crimes committed by the Fascist regime in the Slovene territory.

*Crimes committed by the Fascist regime in the Slovene territory.

*Totalitarian features of the judiciary in the Republic of Slovenia (1945–90).

*Totalitarian features of the judiciary in the Republic of Slovenia (1945–90).

*Reparation and reconciliation in international law: the view of an Estonian lawyer.

*Reparation and reconciliation in international law: the view of an Estonian lawyer.

*Prosecution of Nazi and Communist crimes in Poland.

*Prosecution of Nazi and Communist crimes in Poland.

*On rehabilitation and remedy measures in [[Bulgaria]] for persons repressed from 1944 through 1989.

*On rehabilitation and remedy measures in Bulgaria for persons repressed from 1944 through 1989.

*Transitional justice in Spain.

*Transitional justice in Spain.

*Communist repression and transitional justice in Slovenia.

*Communist repression and transitional justice in Slovenia.

The report stated the following about Totalitarian machines:

The report stated the following about Totalitarian machines:

{{Quotation|Let us mention briefly [[Fascism]], National Socialism and [[Titoism]] in [[Italy]], [[Austria]] and Slovenia. Three Christian nations, with nationalist tendencies, were infected with totalitarianism. The descent into barbarism has comparable structural elements:  

{{Cquote|''Let us mention briefly Fascism, National Socialism and [[Titoism]] in [[Italy]], [[Austria]] and Slovenia. Three Christian nations, with nationalist tendencies, were infected with totalitarianism. The descent into barbarism has comparable structural elements:  

*Abuse of national sentiment to carry out racial and class revolutionary projects;

*Abuse of national sentiment to carry out racial and class revolutionary projects;

*Cult of a great leader,<ref>Discontents: Post-modern and Post communist’ by [[Paul Hollander]]:

*Cult of a great leader,<ref>Discontents: Post-modern and Post communist’ by Paul Hollander:

*Virtually every communist system extinct or surviving at one point or another had a supreme leader who was both extraordinarily powerful and surrounded by a bizarre cult, indeed worship. In the past (or in a more traditional contemporary societies) such as cults were reserved for deities and associated with conventional religious behaviour and institutions. These cults although apparently an intrinsic part of communist dictatorships (at any rate at a stage in their evolution) are largely forgotten today.” “ Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Sung, Enver Hoxha, Ceascesu, Dimitrov, Ulbricht, Gottwald, Josip Broz Tito and others all were the object of such cults. The prototypical cult was that of Stalin which was duplicated elsewhere with minor variations. Paul Hollander Ph.D in Sociology. Princeton University, 1963, B.A. London School of Economics, 1959 Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Center Associate, [[Davis Center]].</ref> who permits his fanatics to murder, steal and lie;

*''Virtually every communist system extinct or surviving at one point or another had a supreme leader who was both extraordinarily powerful and surrounded by a bizarre cult, indeed worship. In the past (or in a more traditional contemporary societies) such as cults were reserved for deities and associated with conventional religious behaviour and institutions. These cults although apparently an intrinsic part of communist dictatorships (at any rate at a stage in their evolution) are largely forgotten today.” “ Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Sung, Enver Hoxha, Ceascesu, Dimitrov, Ulbricht, Gottwald, Josip Broz Tito and others all were the object of such cults. The prototypical cult was that of Stalin which was duplicated elsewhere with minor variations.'' '''Paul Hollander''' Ph.D in Sociology. Princeton University, 1963, B.A. London School of Economics, 1959 Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Center Associate, Davis Center.</ref> who permits his fanatics to murder, steal and lie;

*Dictatorship of one party;

*Dictatorship of one party;

*[[Militarisation]] of society, police state – almighty secret political police;

*Militarisation of society, police state – almighty secret political police;

*Collectivism, subjection of the citizen to the totalitarian state;

*Collectivism, subjection of the citizen to the totalitarian state;

*State terrorism with systematic abuses of basic [[human rights]];

*State terrorism with systematic abuses of basic [[human rights]];

*Aggressive assumption of power and struggle for territory.

*Aggressive assumption of power and struggle for territory.''

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==See also==

==See also==

*[[Totalitarianism]]

* [[human rights|Human Rights]]

*[[European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism]]

* [[Titoism and Totalitarianism]]

*[[Declaration on Crimes of Communism]]

 

==External links==

==External links==

*[http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/22/responding-to-post-second-world-war-totalitarian-crimes-in-slovenia/ International Law Observer]

*[http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/22/responding-to-post-second-world-war-totalitarian-crimes-in-slovenia/ International Law Observer]

==References==

==References==

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