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A Short History of the Communist Party– The Organization and Structure of the Communist Party - Full Membership Lists.
76 pages of interesting reading. I recommend page 71 - on membership growth from 1924 to 1960!
Jan Šinágl, 1.4.2017
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We just returned from spending some time with Karel Aster at his home on Captiva Island, FL. He was a Czech patriot from WWII. Shortly before his capture,
he had been working with the U.S. Army.
Karel Aster is second from the left in the front row of the first image. The photo is from his graduation from the Bata school in Zlin, circa 1936. Karel regularly played ping pong with J.A.Bata. I did short video interview with Karel and asked him about his memories with Bata. He still has a very accurate memory.
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“The fundamental statements made so far by the German criminal prosecutors are groundbreaking for the victims of the Czechoslovak Iron Curtain, because so far no official or academic office in the Czech or Slovak Republics has dared to state that these are imprescriptible acts,” says Platform Managing Director Neela Winkelmann.
Prague, 27 March 2017. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience has received two letters already from German prosecutors concerning its comprehensive criminal complaint of 18 August 2016 on the killing of refugees on the borders of Communist Czechoslovakia. According to the German Federal Prosecutor General, the killing of refugees was an international crime. From the point of view of the prosecutor’s office in Weiden the killing of refugees suggests murder from base motives on the level of those responsible for the system of the border protection.
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Bratislava / Prague, 13 March 2017.In a breakthrough decision, the district court Bratislava I. decided today to fully rehabilitate Hartmut Tautz, the 18-year-old refugee who was killed by border guard dogs on the Czechoslovak border with Austria in 1986. Hartmut’s family is entitled to a compensation by the Slovak Republic. The Platform of European Memory and Conscience welcomes the court ruling as a first acknowledgement of a criminal offence committed by killing the refugee. Prosecution of the perpetrators must follow.
For 28 years since the fall of Communism, practically no justice has been attained for the killings of refugees trying to escape across the Iron Curtain in former Czechoslovakia. In its “JUSTICE 2.0″ project, the Platform has identified the killing of civilians fleeing to the West during Communism as a crime against humanity. The Platform has filed criminal complaints in Germany and Poland in the cases of killings of German and Polish citizens on the borders of former Czechoslovakia.
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