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<p>After the events of 1989, a fundamental shift occurred in postcommunist Central Europe. In this article, “postcommunist Central Europe” refers primarily to Poland, Hungary, and former Czechoslovakia, that is, Central European societies shaped by the experience of communist rule and Soviet influence. This paper focuses on the problem of historical trauma and the post-totalitarian ethos in Central Europe. Historical trauma is not only a psychological phenomenon but, above all, an ethical-hermeneutical challenge—and as such it requires a different form of “therapy.” Healing through narrative articulation and reflective understanding becomes an acute task for contemporary philosophy of history. Questions of complicity, collaboration, and silence belong among the most profound philosophical problems of the post-totalitarian experience. In the post-totalitarian ethos, the aim is not revenge, but the ethical integration of the past. In this context, Central European societies need a language and conceptual tools that enable them to speak about guilt, forgiveness, memory, and responsibility—without moralising, but also without forgetting.</p>

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The turning point of history after the events of 1989: revision and the trauma of memory

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    2026年8月5日

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  • Peter Kyslan

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After the events of 1989, a fundamental shift occurred in postcommunist Central Europe. In this article, “postcommunist Central Europe” refers primarily to Poland, Hungary, and former Czechoslovakia, that is, Central European societies shaped by the experience of communist rule and Soviet influence. This paper focuses on the problem of historical trauma and the post-totalitarian ethos in Central Europe. Historical trauma is not only a psychological phenomenon but, above all, an ethical-hermeneutical challenge—and as such it requires a different form of “therapy.” Healing through narrative articulation and reflective understanding becomes an acute task for contemporary philosophy of history. Questions of complicity, collaboration, and silence belong among the most profound philosophical problems of the post-totalitarian experience. In the post-totalitarian ethos, the aim is not revenge, but the ethical integration of the past. In this context, Central European societies need a language and conceptual tools that enable them to speak about guilt, forgiveness, memory, and responsibility—without moralising, but also without forgetting.