What is lustration? In the case of the Soviet Union and the communist countries in Eastern Europe, this meant that those who had held public offices in the repressive power apparatus during the communist era were deprived of their opportunities to continue to hold corresponding positions after the fall of communism.
For example. Czech Republic: They were more active in the area of lustration (started as early as March 1990) and they did not give known collaborators or police informers a chance to return to public office.
Poland: where a more tolerant lustration was carried out, giving communist collaborators an opportunity to remain in public office in exchange for testifying
But in the Russian Federation, no lustration was ever carried out, although it was talked about.
Journalist Yevgeniy Kiselev talks to Doctor Andrey Volna about this in this video (with English subtitles)
When I hear this, I wonder if Putin’s entire time in power is not a reverse – unnecessarily painful – lustration process? After all, his regime has proven more than a hundred times that those who are part of it, as well as the one who leads it, should long ago have been subjected to lustration and not allowed to come close to any public exercise of power.
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