Abstract
Does the West have a duty to forget Communism? For Eastern Europeans, the amnesia that surrounds Communism in the West today seems to be the reversal of the arbitrary division that followed the Second World War, the consequence of a belated justice that pardons the facts and obliterates a past for which they do not consider themselves to be the sole responsible actors. The lack of historical conscience with regard to Communism also has various instrumental justifications: the difficulty in pinpointing those responsible for this long-lasting totalitarianism and its victims, the possibility of error, the harmful effects of the hatred that could easily be resuscitated during Post-Communism, and the need for reconciliation.
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