CZECH REPUBLIC

Anti-communists rehabilitated

Published on 5 August 2010 at 13:23

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Milan Paumer funeral changes attitudes to the resistance", headlines Mlada Fronta DNES, in the wake of the burial of a famous anti-communist rebel. The Czech Republic’s main political leaders who paid their respects to Milan Paumer (1931-2010) have hailed him as a "hero" in the struggle against the pro-Soviet regime. He was one of the Mašín brothers’ group, which fought its way to West Berlin in 1953. Although public opinion is till divided over the homage to Paumer and the Mašín brothers, Petr Nečas’ centre right government is now preparing a law "to acknowledge the anti-communist resistance on the same footing as the partisans who fought the Nazis." The daily notes that after more than half a century, representatives of the "third resistance" (the two others being the movements to fight the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Nazis) can now be finally rehabilitated.

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