Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Soviet and Other Communist Regimes and the Position of the Council of Europe
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2009
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Antonovych, Myroslava
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Accountability for the crimes of totalitarian communist regimes became an issue for the Council of Europe after the velvet revolutions in Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet Union. As numerous archives were released, it became clear that there were no essential differences between Communism and Nazism, as both used similar, criminally inhumane means to maintain power. Twenty million deaths resulted from political repression in the Soviet Union, and 1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe (Courtois 4). After new states with totalitarian communist pasts joined the Council of Europe, Resolution 1096 was adopted in 1996, containing measures to dismantle the heritage of former communist totalitarian systems.
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Human Rights, Communist Regime, Council of Europe, Condemnation of Totalitarianism
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Antonovych M. Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Soviet and Other Communist Regimes and the Position of the Council of Europe / Myroslava Antonovych // Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe / ed. by Larissa M.L. Zaleska Onyshkevych and Maria G. Rewakowicz. - Armonk, New York ; London, England : M. E. Sharpe, 2009. - P. 121-138.