A Lasting Poison
The recent revelation of the Czech writer Milan Kundera’s early collaboration with the Communist police is merely the latest proof of the long half-life of a toxic past. But, in order to understand that epoch, we must comprehend its often ambiguous and overwhelming circumstances, never simplifying a multilayered daily reality for the sake of current political goals.
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NEW YORK – Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of communism in Europe. Liberated from the complexity of knowing too much about the cruel past, the young people of Eastern Europe’s post-communist generation seem uninterested in what their parents and grandparents endured.