https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.823
The breakdown of communist regimes in East-Central Europe has become a new issue of collective memory in Europe. Yet, the celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of this crucial event for European history, have led to a diversity of commemorations and a plurality of discourses, revealing deep differences of interpretations of 1989. This article analyses the commemorations organized in the western part of European union and also the different modes of connections to the past within Eastern Europe, especially in Poland. The author argues that the collective memory of 1989 is far to be consensual: it appears to be polyphonic and, in such cases as in Poland, memory is an object of intensive politicization. Whereas in Western european countries, it is only an issue of collective memory, serving as a promotion for European Union values, in the East, it is an issue of everyday political competition.
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