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

• Authors: Peter Jašek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

memorials; remembrance; communism; Vasil Biľak; rehabilitation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ethnologia Actualis
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 113-125

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-11-26

Contributors

author

Peter Jašek

• Nation’s Memory Institute in Bratislava

References

• BIĽAK, V. (2014): Až po mé smrti. [Just after my Death]. Praha: BVD.
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• PULLMANN, M. (2011): Konec experimentu. [The end of Experiment]. Praha: Scriptorium.
• SIKORA, S. (2010): Rok 1968 a politický vývoj na Slovensku. [Year 1968 and the political development in Slovakia]. Bratislava: Veda.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eas-2015-0011