Tina Rosenberg

"History will be kindto me," Winston Churchill said, "for I intend to write it."

Under communism, writes Jacques Rupnik, the future wascertain; it was the past no one could be sure of.

Lithuania hasreleased from prison and rehabilitated Nazi mass murderers—sim-ply because the court that condemned them was a Communistcour

The memory of the past is a prize worth struggling for.

s. "Whoever controls the past controls thefuture," said George Orwell, who knew about such things.

One of thefirst ways this cynicism revealed itself was in how the Bolsheviksdealt with the past: shooting the czar and his family—even the chil-dren's spaniel—

He became a dissident after thePrague Spring. In return, the government stripped him of his job asa professor of economics and sent him to spend two decades in a

work camp, cleaning lakes.

How do people learn to still thevoices in their head and listen only to the one coming through theloudspeaker?

Rudolf Zukal was Enemy of the People number265.

economists, doctors, and lawyers, in the great Czechoslovak tradi-tion of the philosopher/stoker and the engineer/night watchman.He saw his family only on weekends. The bulldozer smashed thefingers of his left hand and sliced off a part of his foot. He had threeheart attacks