"In spite of the demise of communism, anti-Communism has become a key competitive political dimension in which current political debates are framed in central-eastern Europe, often under ‘democracy-building' justifications. However, post-communist anti-communism is better explained by the motivation of the actors to gain political and moral capital within existing structures. A specific constellation of historical, institutional and transnational conditions have allowed the Czech right to impose a 'regime of truth', whereas in Hungary ‘contested memory' prevails. "

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