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To: MNI who wrote (12851)	6/25/1999 9:02:00 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 17770

I understand that it is a painful business. On the other hand, there has been a tendency in post- Communist countries to be wary of the process of full reckoning, because of the fear of instability and the pervasiveness of at least some form of collaboration with the regimes. Since party membership was needed for many upper- echelon posts, many people joined without conviction, and to ban them from public life would be to deny the effected countries needed expertise. Additionally, even some prominent dissidents appear to have given information in interviews with the security forces, usually only if they thought it was harmless, or already known, in order to get out of detention. Even when there is an explanation, it is quite embarrassing. Finally, there has been a fear that denial of normalization would make the nomenklatura even more desperate, and lead to greater subversion or even civil war. I mention these things only to note that it is sometimes hard to decide how to handle matters that are so likely to prove traumatic to society....