Lustration
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Lustration in Central and Eastern Europe is the official public procedure of scrutinizing a public official or a candidate for public office in terms of their history as a witting confidential collabo
Drawing of a relief from the Karnak temple in Egypt showing a pharaoh lustrating with incense
Decommunization
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Decommunization in former communist states is the process of purging former communist high officials and eliminating communist symbols.
Lustration
…Surfacing of evidence for such a past activity typically inflicts severe damage to the reputation of the person concerned. It should not be confused with decommunization, which is the process of barring former communist regular officials from public offices as well as eliminating communist symbols. The principle of…
One of the manifestations of decommunization has been renaming streets. Before 2017, ulica Anny German in Poznań (Anna German Street) was named in honor of Julian Leński.
Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad for various atrocities
The plinth of the Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv after its destruction