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Václav Vaško
Václav Vaško (26 April 1921 – 20 May 2009) was a Czech diplomat, human rights activist, author of books dealing with the history of the Catholic Church during the Soviet occupation and communist dictatorship, and a former political prisoner of the communist regime. He was awarded the Medal of Merit by President Václav Havel on 28 October 1998. He was a founding signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism The Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism was a declaration which was initiated by the Czech government and signed on 3 June 2008 by prominent European politicians, former political prisoners and historians, among them former .... Works * '' Neumlčená'' (a chronicle of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia during the communist dictatorship, written in the 1980s, published in 1990 in two volumes) * ''Kardinál Tomášek'' (1994, co-authored with Jan Hartmann, Bohumil Svoboda ''et al''.) * '' Ne vším jsem byl rád'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Vasko may refer to: *Vaskő, Hungarian name of Ocna de Fier * Vasko (given name) *Vasko (surname) See also *Vasco (other) Vasco may refer to: People Given name Middle Ages * Vasco da Gama (c. 1460s–1524), Portuguese explorer * Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–1519), Spanish conquistador * Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, captain of Espírito Santo (1490–1561), Portuguese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights
Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered inherent and inalienable, meaning they belong to every individual simply by virtue of being human, regardless of characteristics like nationality, ethnicity, religion, or socio-economic status. They encompass a broad range of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, such as the right to life, freedom of expression, protection against enslavement, and right to education. The modern concept of human rights gained significant prominence after World War II, particularly in response to the atrocities of the Holocaust, leading to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. This document outlined a comprehensive framework of rights that countries are encouraged t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Czechoslovakia (1948–1989)
From the Communist coup d'état in February 1948 to the Velvet Revolution in 1989, Czechoslovakia was ruled by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (, ''KSČ''). The country belonged to the Eastern Bloc and was a member of the Warsaw Pact and of Comecon. During the era of Communist Party rule, thousands of Czechoslovaks faced political persecution for various offences, such as trying to emigrate across the Iron Curtain. The 1993 Act on Lawlessness of the Communist Regime and on Resistance Against It determined that the communist government was illegal and that the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was a criminal organisation. Stalinization On 25 February 1948, President Edvard Beneš gave in to the demands of Communist Prime Minister Klement Gottwald and appointed a Cabinet dominated by Communists. While it was nominally still a coalition, the "non-Communists" in the cabinet were mostly fellow travelers. This gave legal sanction to the KSČ coup, and marked the onset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Prisoner
A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity. The political offense is not always the official reason for the prisoner's detention. There is no internationally recognized legal definition of the concept, although numerous similar definitions have been proposed by various organizations and scholars, and there is a general consensus among scholars that "individuals have been sanctioned by legal systems and imprisoned by political regimes not for their violation of codified laws but for their thoughts and ideas that have fundamentally challenged existing power relations". The status of a political prisoner is generally awarded to individuals based on the declarations of non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International, on a case-by-case basis. While such statuses are often widely recognized by the international public, they are often rejected by individual governments accused of holding political prisoners, which tend to deny any bias in thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Havel
Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the Revolutions of 1989, fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays and memoirs. His educational opportunities having been limited by his bourgeois background, when freedoms were limited by the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Havel first rose to prominence as a playwright. In works such as ''The Garden Party (play), The Garden Party'' and ''The Memorandum'', Havel used an Theatre of the absurd, absurdist style to criticize the Communist system. After participating in the Prague Spring and being blacklisted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague Declaration On European Conscience And Communism
The Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism was a declaration which was initiated by the Czech government and signed on 3 June 2008 by prominent European politicians, former political prisoners and historians, among them former Czech President Václav Havel and future German President Joachim Gauck, calling for "Europe-wide condemnation of, and education about, the crimes of communism." Much of the content of the declaration reproduced demands formulated by the European People's Party in 2004, and draws heavily on the theory or conception of totalitarianism. To date, the most visible proposal set forth by the declaration was the adoption of the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism (known as the International Black Ribbon Day in some countries), adopted by the European Union and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, as the official international remembrance day for victims of totalitarian regimes. On 14 October 2011, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute For Information On The Crimes Of Communism
The Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism (IICC) (, ''UOK'') is a Sweden-based non-profit and non-governmental human rights organization, founded in 2008, with the stated purpose of "spreading essential information on the crimes of communism and to promote vigilance against all totalitarian ideologies and antidemocratic movements". The institute is a member organization of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience, an educational project of the European Union bringing together government institutions and NGOs active in research, documentation, awareness raising and education about the crimes of totalitarian regimes. The IICC publishes information materials and media, surveys, reports, and teaching materials, participates in the public debate, and organizes film screenings, seminars, hearings, media events and exhibitions related to the subject. The IICC cooperates with national institutions, embassies, institutes, NGO:s and organizations in Europe, the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Hartmann
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohumil Svoboda
Bohumil is a male given name of Slavic origin. It means "favoured by God", derived from the Slavic words ''bog'' (god) and ''mil'' (favour). Its feminine equivalent is Bohumila. Nicknames of Bohumil include Bohouš, Bohoušek, Bohuš, Mila, Milek, Bogie, Boga, Bozha. Other forms of the name are Bogomil, Bogumił (Polish variant) and Bogolyub. Name days *Czech: 3 October *Slovak: 3 March *Polish: 13 January, 18 January, 26 February, 10 June or 3 November Notable people with the name * Bogumilus (1135?–1204?), Archbishop of Gniezno and hermit * Bohumil Andrejko (born 1953), Slovak football coach * Bohumil Berdych, Czechoslovak slalom canoeist * Bohumil Brhel (born 1965), Czech speedway rider * Bohumil Bydžovský (1880–1969), Czech mathematician * Bohumil Cepák (1951–2021), Czech former handball player * Bohumil Doležal (born 1940), Czech literary critic, politician and former dissident * Bohumil Durdis (1903–1983), Czech weightlifter * Bohumil Fidler (1860-1944), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ne Vším Jsem Byl Rád
NE, Ne or ne may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Neutral Evil, an alignment in the American role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' * New Edition, an American vocal group * Nicomachean Ethics, a collection of ten books by Greek philosopher Aristotle Businesses and organizations * Mobico Group, formerly National Express, an English public transport operator * Natural England, an English government agency * New England Patriots, a professional American football team in Foxborough, Massachusetts * New Hope (Macau), a Macau political party * SkyEurope Airlines, a Slovakian airline * New Era Cap Company, an American headwear company Language * Ne (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign * Ne (kana), a Japanese written character * Nepali language * Modern English, sometimes abbreviated NE (to avoid confusion with Middle English) Places * NE postcode area, UK, a postcode for the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear * Ne, Liguria, Italy, a ''comune'' in the Province of Genoa * Né (riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
