crimes committed by totalitarian regimes - Ministrstvo za pravosodje

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
Lovro Šturm, Slovenian Minister of Justice ........................................................................................................... 7
INTRODUCTION
Jacques Barrot, Vice-President of the European Commission for Justice, Freedom and Security ..................... 9
I. HISTORY, CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION OF TOTALITARIAN REGIMES ...... 11
Ronaldas Racinskas
Historical justice for Europe: why, when and how? ............................................................................................... 13
Tunne Kelam
Suggestions on assessment of totalitarian communism ......................................................................................... 21
Jera Vodušek Starič
The making of the communist regime in Slovenia and Yugoslavia ....................................................................... 25
Damjan Hančič and Renato Podberšič
Totalitarian regimes in Slovenia in the 20 th century ............................................................................................... 39
Mateja Čoh
Characteristics of the judicial system in Slovenia between 1945 and 1951 ........................................................... 61
Tamara Griesser Pečar
The Roman Catholic Church in Slovenia under three totalitarian regimes ..............................................................71
Dainius Žalimas
The need for equal treatment of Nazi and Soviet crimes ....................................................................................... 81
Vytautas Landsbergis
Hypocrisy of discrimination among victims of totalitarian crimes ....................................................................... 85
II. TOTALITARIAN CRIMES: CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEY ............................................................... 87
Heinrihs Strods
Crimes committed in Latvia by the occupation regimes of the USSR and Germany (1940–90) .......................... 89
Jaan Tamm and Helle Solnask
Political repression in the 1940’s and 1950’s in Estonia ......................................................................................... 97
Dalia Kuodyte
Lithuanian victims of communist occupation ........................................................................................................ 99