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*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 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]].

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==

*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;

==See also==

==See also==

* [[Titoism and Totalitarianism]]

* [[Titoism and Totalitarianism]]

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