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The section on Czechoslovakia discusses the lustrace laws, which were designed to keep communist collaborators out of public service in the post-communist government.
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg ricklibrarian 2007
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The section on Czechoslovakia discusses the lustrace laws, which were designed to keep communist collaborators out of public service in the post-communist government.
Archive 2007-12-01 ricklibrarian 2007
sionnach commented on the word lustrace
used repeatedly in Tina Rosenberg's "The Haunted Land" to refer to sanctions or penalties designed to purge former party members, secret service agents and informants from public office after the fall of communism in various Easter bloc countries. This noun form doesn't appear in most dictionaries, but is presumably derived from the verb "lustrate".
May 7, 2009