„Jak se to tedy mělo dělat jinak?“ Historicka komise Občanskeho fora a Pithartovy otazky
‘So, How Should It Have Been Done?’ Pithart’s Questions and the Civic Forum Historical Committee

Summary/Abstract: In this contribution, the authors, both historians, but this time as eye-witnesses, ask the question that Petr Pithart touched upon in his memoirs, Devětaosmdesaty (Eightynine; 2009): What could have been done to prevent the widespread destruction and theft of secret-police fi les and other archive records in Czechoslovakia in late 1989? The authors cast doubt on Pithart’s claim that this state of affairs was a result of the situation in society and that it was impossible to infl uence it in any fundamental way. The solution, the authors believe, was offered by the Historical Commission of the Civic Forum, of which they were members, whose draft proposals for the security and preservation of archive records, as well as other work from December 1989 and January 1990, they discuss here. They also discuss why these proposals were not given a fair hearing in the Coordinating Centre of the Civic Forum.

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