The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR)

The Institute studies and impartially evaluates the time of non-freedom and the time of the communist totalitarian regime; examines the anti-democratic and criminal activity of the state bodies, especially its security services; the criminal activities of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and other organizations based on its ideology; analyzes causes and methods of liquidation of the democratic regime during the time of communist totalitarian power, documents the participation of both local and foreign persons in support of the communist regime and in resistance to it;documents Nazi and communist crimes; provides the public with the results of its activity, mainly to publish information about the time of non-freedom, the time of Communist totalitarian power and about the acts and fates of individuals, publishes and disseminates publications, organizes exhibitions, seminars, professional conferences and discussions, cooperates with scientific, cultural, educational and other institutions for the purpose of exchanging information and experience relating to professional issues; cooperates with foreign institutions and individuals of similar orientation.

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