Act on Lawlessness of the Communist Regime and on Resistance Against It

The Act on Illegality of the Communist Regime and on Resistance Against It (Czech: Zákon o protiprávnosti komunistického režimu a o odporu proti němu, zákon č. 198/1993 Sb.) is an act passed on July 9, 1993 in the Parliament of the Czech Republic. This act declared the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia (February 25, 1948 – November 17, 1989) as illegal and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia as a criminal organisation. Most of the act is formulated as a resolution.

The resolution made the Czech Republic the first former Eastern Bloc country or successor state to officially condemn its Communist regime.

198

ACT

of the 9th July 1993

on Illegality of the Communist Regime and on Resistance Against It

Parliament of the Czech Republic passed this act:

Aware of his duty as a democratically elected parliament to cope with communist regime, the Parliament of the Czech Republic:

pronounces that Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, its leadership and members are responsible for the way of governance in our country between 1948 – 1989, especially for purposeful destruction of traditional principles of European civilisation, for deliberate violations of human rights and freedoms, for moral and economic decline accompanied by judicial crimes and terror carried out against those with different opinions, for replacement of functional market economy by directly controlled economy, for destruction of traditional principles of proprietary rights, for abuse of education, science and culture for political and ideological purposes, for inconsiderate destruction of nature,

and declares that in his subsequent activity the parliament will base on this act.

§ 1

(1) The communist regime and those who promoted it actively,

a) deprived citizens of any possibility to freely express their political view, forced them to hide their opinions on situation in state and society and forced them to publicly express consent with issues that they considered lie or felony, all this was carried by persecution or threat of persecution against themselves and their families,

b) systematically and constantly breached human rights, particularly it repressed specific political, social and religious groups of citizens,

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