<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The paper deals with the memorial of Vasil Biľak that was unveiled in Krajná Bystrá in Eastern Slovakia in February 2015. However, Vasil Biľak was considered as a very negative figure for his participation at the Warsaw Pact occupation in 1968. The paper points out some gaps in the remembrance policy in Slovakia after the fall of communism and also some inconsistency that accompanied the process of the coming to terms with the totalitarian history of Slovakia.</p></abstract>

The paper deals with the memorial of Vasil Biľak that was unveiled in Krajná Bystrá in Eastern Slovakia in February 2015. However, Vasil Biľak was considered as a very negative figure for his participation at the Warsaw Pact occupation in 1968. The paper points out some gaps in the remembrance policy in Slovakia after the fall of communism and also some inconsistency that accompanied the process of the coming to terms with the totalitarian history of Slovakia.

Memorial of Vasil Biľak: Did the Truth Really Remained Truth?

Nation’s Memory Institute in Bratislava

Ethnologia Actualis

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The paper deals with the memorial of Vasil Biľak that was unveiled in Krajná Bystrá in Eastern Slovakia in February 2015. However, Vasil Biľak was considered...

Memorial of Vasil Biľak: Did the Truth Really Remained Truth?

Published Online: Nov 26, 2015

Page range: 113 - 125

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eas-2015-0011

Keywords
memorials, remembrance, communism, Vasil Biľak, rehabilitation

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Memorial of Vasil Biľak: Did the Truth Really Remained Truth?

Published Online: Nov 26, 2015

Page range: 113 - 125

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eas-2015-0011

Keywordsmemorials, remembrance, communism, Vasil Biľak, rehabilitation

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
memorials, remembrance, communism, Vasil Biľak, rehabilitation