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Angelika Bazalová wrote that Igor Chaun demonstrated a filmmaker's sensitivity to the moment during his meeting with fifteen-year-old students. She described their conversation as a testament to the times and was particularly amused by the moments when the girls were unsure how to spell his surname. She reminded the students that Chaun was among the student leaders of 1989 and stated that he had directed approximately 60 documentary and feature films, written a number of screenplays, including the screenplay for the 1992 film Requiem for a Doll, and directed Czech Soda. Bazalová also criticized that someone explained to Chaun why, in his opinion, a "spy in a jet" was acceptable. She compared it to the behavior of communist officials before the Velvet Revolution, who, according to her, preached equality but considered themselves superior. She wrote that the particular spy behaved similarly and referred to himself as "the first among equals." She recalled the concerns at the time that the country would return to the past after thirty years and expressed her pity for Chaun. Finally, she noted that the girl in the background was visibly fidgeting during her classmate's speech, which, according to her, might have meant that she was having a hard time with the situation. She added that Veronika might still change her mind as she gains more sense. #dokumentárnífilm #sametovárevoluce #historie (translated)

The author called on Vienna to remember Tiananmen and proposed a permanent memorial at Heldenplatz for the victims of the 4 June 1989 crackdown and people in China who continued to stand for freedom, democracy and human rights. https://t.co/vnWa7ygMcH #Tiananmen #Menschenrechte #Demokratie #AT #CN

The author marked 9 October 1989 as Leipzig Freedom Day and said they remained deeply grateful to the tens of thousands of citizens who had peacefully opposed dictatorship. They wrote that their actions helped open the way to German unity and a free Europe, citing the slogans “Wir sind das Volk” and “Keine Gewalt.” https://t.co/6lrDtt0bve #Freiheit #Demokratie #Einheit #DE #EU

Wojciech Machulski compared the restrictions on Sunday trading and hourly alcohol sales in the People's Republic of Poland with similar solutions in the Third Republic of Poland during the government of POPiS. He wrote that although he considered these issues minor, he regretted that the small freedoms gained after 1989 were disappearing. #Wolność #Polska #HistoriePolityczne (translated)

The author wrote that the British station ITV published previously unknown recordings from June 1989 of the suppression of student protests by the Chinese army in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. He compared the protests to the Ukrainian Maidan and the recent riots in Tehran, which — he claimed — led to the current war. https://t.co/YXgMKeiJFZ #Tiananmen #Historia #Protesty #GB #CN #UA #IR (translated)

Prof. Roman Kuźniar, in an article on the centenary of Krzysztof Skubiszewski's birth, emphasizes his key role as Foreign Minister in guiding Poland through the complex geopolitical changes after 1989, which resulted in a sovereign foreign policy and strengthened the country in Europe. #KrzysztofSkubiszewski #politykagarń #dyplomacja (translated)

The author denounced police censorships that he qualified as illegal. He recalled that freedom of expression, including the right to contest, is a fundamental right and indicated that it is also stated and guaranteed to young people by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and the French Education Code (2021). https://t.co/NWFGdlPZsw #LibertéDExpression #DroitsHumains #Jeunesse #FR #ONU (translated)

Dortikum wrote that, according to him, Bulgaria has never been governed by such despised figures since 1989. He described what is happening as the greatest fall of state politics and stated that the ruling caste is heavily compromised and under Russian influence, using derogatory definitions for Russians. The author forecasted isolation of Bulgaria in NATO and new Russian strikes—both hybrid and real. https://t.co/T4obCJfvZc #България #политика #НАТО (translated)

Budapest opens the archives of the communist political police, providing public access to the files of collaborators from the period 1956-1989, in a move regarded as historic for transparency and the truth about the past, signifying that Hungary is trying to repair a captured democracy after the Orbán regime. #Ungaria #Arhive #Comunism (translated)

The author wrote that October 7 had hardly any significance in the holiday memory before 2023, as the "Day of the Republic of the GDR" had become obsolete since 1989. He also referred to the brutal attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023. #DDR #Geschichte #Israel #DE #IL (translated)

Oto Klempíř faced sharp criticism from the Czech audience in Frankfurt, which reacted to his mentions of the oppression of literature before 1989 with shouts of accusations of collaboration with the StB, while writer Radka Denemarková appealed to the power of words in the context of contemporary Czech politics. #FrankfurtskýKnižníVeletrh #ČeskáLiteratura #Politika (translated)

At PfE Foundation Academy, the author argued that an irreversible shift in transatlantic relations from the arrangement Europe had known since at least 1989 would be one of the continent’s defining future issues. They said Europe needed to develop an appropriate geopolitical and economic response soon. #TransatlanticRelations #Geopolitics #Europe #EU

The article discusses how the law of 1989 that protected taxpayers from fiscal drag is still formally in effect, while the Italian government, despite the current inflation, no longer considers it operational and has not adopted the necessary measures to adjust tax brackets and deductions. #FiscalDrag #Inflazione #Tassazione (translated)

Pat Laliberté, from La Tribune du peuple, described a drop from 90 to zero seats in a single term in Quebec as a possible "first." He reminded that the CAQ had elected 90 members out of 125 on October 3, 2022, but clarified that the counting was not finished and that the result of zero was not yet official. According to the table from Elections Quebec he cited, the Liberal Party went from 102 seats in 1973 to 26 in 1976; the Union Nationale from 56 in 1966 to 17 in 1970, then to zero in 1973; the Parti Québécois from 80 in 1981 to 23 in 1985; and the Action Démocratique from 41 in 2007 to 7 in 2008, before merging into the CAQ. He also noted that the Ralliement Créditiste went from 12 seats in 1970 to zero in 1981. Laliberté emphasized that none of these parties started a term with as many seats as the CAQ before being reduced to zero four years later. #Québec #Politique #CAQ (translated)

Stasiland Slovenia has written that Milan Kučan proposed a vote against the political police. He claimed that Kučan was the political head of the UDBA between 1986 and 1989 and that he had been receiving its reports since 1969. He provided more information in his 557-page book "Milan Kučan and the UDBA." https://t.co/ekrsHm7FwV https://t.co/okwSijUwx4 #politika #MilanKučan #Udba (translated)

Franz Branntwein wrote that people in the former GDR rose up for freedom twice between 1945 and 1990: on June 17, 1953, and on November 9, 1989. West Germans ate bananas during this time. He cited this as an explanation for why "Ossis" are, in his opinion, the way they are. https://t.co/wzqjfBpWpV #DDR #Freiheit #Geschichte (translated)

Walter Kraft wrote that before 1989, some people, in protest against the 17th congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, tore out the 17th page from their identity cards, and according to him, the Public Security usually imposed a fine on the spot for the damaged document. He compared the current practice to arresting people for the letter "Z" on a t-shirt and ironically stated that the situation has improved. #historie #protest #svoboda (translated)

Vlastimil Weiner wrote that the artist Petr Rýgr (65) from the Náchod region ordered an advertisement with congratulations to Ferdinand Vaňka (Václav Havel) for his birthday in September 1989, which was published on October 7 in Rudé právo. According to Weiner, Rýgr keeps the submission receipt and the invoice and described his act as a mischievous deed that he succeeded in. Weiner noted that the advertisement caused a stir. https://t.co/NClktYHM8V #historie #Českárepublika #narozeniny (translated)