The dominance of former communists and the insufficient discussion of the past in the post-communist world is not coincidental. To put it bluntly, former communists have a clear interest in concealing the past: it tarnishes them, undermines them, hurts their claims to be carrying out 'reforms,' even when they personally had nothing to do with the past crimes.
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Related The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. T.S. ELIOT We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... KURT VONNEGUT I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training. WARREN CUCCURULLO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... Honesty,moral standards ,and principles all partner up with truth be the best you can be. In this wo... GARY F EVANS... A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. LOUIS L'AMOUR No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves... HARUKI MURAKAMI Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not. STEVE NASH Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET ... I realized that my father had learned something in his recovery that I still hadn't totally gras... RENEE CARLINO But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on ju... SOHEIR KHASHOGGI For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op... RAQUEL CEPEDA The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down. MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is... MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently. MARTY RUBIN The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future. DAN QUAYLE I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that. AIDAN QUINN That's history. I say history because it happened in the past. MURRAY WALKER These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r... CONNILYN COSSETTE I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn ... LISA J. SHULTZ Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present. ANTHONY KIEDIS The road to healing is a rocky one, and you need to know that. There are times when every fibre in y... CORALLIE BUCHANAN dont let the old break you; let the love make you BERTRAND RUSSELL Long after the poor departed have gone from our hearts, their insignificant dust continues to be min... MARCEL PROUST Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying... TONI MORRISON My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget. VERONICA ROTH We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain. SOPHOCLES How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL I'd sooner make fresh mistakes today than correct the errors of the past. MARTY RUBIN Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Don’t be ruled by your past. Don’t be crippled by the past. Let the past be the past and focus o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact th... WILLIAM MAXWELL Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy. RICHARD ROEPER Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers. CAROL BELLAMY The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the p... ED HARRIS It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate... L.M. MONTGOMERY I don’t want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want you... We’ll just be happy, waiting and wor... L.M. MONTGOMERY The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and... ROSE MACAULAY Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it SOTONYE ANGA Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch. ANDRES INIESTA Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The past is somewhere we can walk with our memories Never with our footsteps MIMI NOVIC Jesus came into the world not to condemn the world, but to save the world. When we come with condemn... TONY CAMPOLO May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself. MARIANA FULGER Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past. BUD SELIG Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in ... WILLIAM WATSON I lied," I said. ... "I know it," he said. "Then do something about it. Do anything, just ... WILLIAM FAULKNER I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hu... JIMI HENDRIX My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me. GOTTFRIED BENN It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as ... TIMOTHY B. TYSON When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling ti... MARGARET ATWOOD You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of y... IYANLA VANZANT When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like ... MARGARET ATWOOD Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present. GAELIC PROVERB Our strengths are not our own until they are freed of the burden of having to heal the past. JONATHAN RAYMOND Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t... ARNOLD H. GLASGOW The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ... AGNES REPPLIER Never look back unless you are planning to go that way HENRY DAVID THOREAU I can never conceive of yesterday as being anything but behind me. MARTY RUBIN I believe our attitude to our problems ultimately determines how we resolve them. If we truly want t... CORALLIE BUCHANAN There are two decisions you need to make after you have accepted Jesus into your life. One: You need... CORALLIE BUCHANAN You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you... CORALLIE BUCHANAN The way to free your feelings is to simply feel them. SHAERI RICHARDS
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