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Czech ODS prefers lower social insurance payments, to keep taxes ... archives of the former Communist security forces. The documents contain data on the people in the whole former Czechoslovakia in whom the VKR was interested. "They could be persons under lustration and also agents," archives deputy director Martin Pulec said. In addition, there was also the VKR central registry in Prague, he said. The oldest of the published files comes from 1954 and the latest from 1989 when the communist regime fell in Czechoslovakia. Individual people can be looked for in the database according to their names. The VKP sought to turn the army into an obedient instrument of political power.
Its main task was to disclose the activities of western secret service, high treason, terrorism, sabotage, hostile propaganda and the preparation to leave the country illegally. It concentrated political powers, apart from intelligence ones. provocation, brutal interrogation and physical and psychological torture were among its methods. It was abolished in 1990. It was disclosed in 2001 that some former members of the military counter-intelligence illegally received negative lustration or screening certificates at the beginning of the 1990s.
(Ceske Noviny)
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