nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180112-171524 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180112s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180112-171524 doi eng 342 23 Přibáň, Jiří Author aut The Kundera Case and the Neurotic Collective Memory of Postcommunism Přibáň, Jiří Verfassungsblog 2018-01-12 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier History is a battlefield of present politics. Dealing with the past reveals the power struggles and strategies of the present. Past events are both denounced and glorified by political agents of the present hoping to weaken their enemies. However, the past also contains injustices and political crimes and any decision not to deal with them in the present only reaffirms them and confirms the unjust status of their victims. Not to contend with the past injustices thus compromises the legitimacy of the present system of positive law. To deal, or not to deal with the past, indeed, is an important question. However, it is also inseparable from questions of which past is to be dealt with and how. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-kundera-case-and-the-neurotic-collective-memory-of-postcommunism/ raw object