The exhibition is designed by historians associated with the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) and aims to present the complicated process, which ultimately led to freedom from the communist dictatorship in these countries. It is part of „Freedom Express“, which is a social and educational campaign organized by ENRS and the European ministries for culture from central Europe, including Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Germany.

The exhibition will take place from November 4th to November 10th on Dorothea- Schleger Platz in the German capital. The location is a symbol as it used to be as a railway border crossing between East and West Berlin between 1961 and 1990.

The exhibition wants to emphasize the various ways in which civil liberties that exist today were limited in the former soviet bloc. On the other hand a special focus is put on the events that proceeded the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern European.

Above all the exhibition emphasizes the fact that the transition from Communism for these individual states was „fuller and deeper“ than the whole Pan-European context, as claimed by Prof. Jan Rydel (chairman of the ENRS Steering Committee). It is therefore important to remind everyone of this process. The exhibition reveals a story of the different faces of freedom; freedom of speech and expression, freedom of religion and belief, economic freedom and other themes. The exhibition is divided according to these themes.

• The full program of the event: www.freedomexpress.enrs.eu
• For more information: http://www.mzv.cz/brussels/en/bilateral_relations/exhibition_roads_to_1989_east_central.html

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