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The end of the Cold War appeared to bring a new era of openness, with people finally able and prepared to confront the facts about their past. It seemed that the age of mass produced text books, each one carefully filleting a nation's history, had drawn to a close. But since then, a more insidious form of censorship has developed - something which we call self-censorship. This issue of Index looks at how some countries have chosen to "forget" their past, and how taboos have grown up, preventing people from re-examining their history. Official censorship may be dying, but self-censorship is rampant. This text investigates how, after the fall of communism, no history was taught in Russia, while for seven years academics worked on a palatable version of events; how Americans have erased memories of McCarthyite witch-hunts; and how Austrians, so complicit in Nazi regimes, have styled themselves as Hitler's victims.
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