Council of Europe resolution 1481

2006 resolution by the Council of Europe

In the resolution 1481/2006 of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) issued on 25 January 2006 during its winter session, the Council of Europe "strongly condemns crimes of totalitarian communist regimes".

It condemned "the massive human rights violations committed by totalitarian communist regimes and expressed sympathy, understanding and recognition for the victims of these crimes". It also said these violations "included individual and collective assassinations and executions, death in concentration camps, starvation, deportations, torture, slave labour and other forms of mass physical terror".

The full draft recommendation by rapporteur Göran Lindblad was issued with great majority by the Political Affairs committee. However, it did not receive the necessary two-thirds majority of the votes cast in the Parliamentary Assembly. The group of communist parties, plus United Russia, strongly opposed the resolution. The resolution was supported by the most conservatives including EPP/CD, ED, liberal groups and some social democrats, especially from countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic or the Baltic countries.

## Final voting results[edit]

* 153 members were present and voted out of 317
* 99 members voted in favor of the Resolution 1481
* 42 members voted against the Resolution 1481
* 12 members abstained from voting

## See also[edit]

* European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism
* European Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes
* Declaration on Crimes of Communism
* Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism
* Vilnius Declaration

## External links[edit]

* Need for international condemnation of crimes of totalitarian communist regimes (full draft of the Political Affairs Committee)
* Russians In Support of the Idea of International Condemnation of Communism (An Open Letter from Leaders of Russian Anti-communist Organizations to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe)
* Res. 1481
* Press release
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Anti-communism in Europe since 1989

* Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism

European hearings,
resolutions and
declarations|

* Council of Europe resolution 1481 (2006)
* European Public Hearing on Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes (2008)
* Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism (2008)
* European Parliament declaration of 23 August 2008
* European Public Hearing on European Conscience and Crimes of Totalitarian Communism: 20 Years After (2009)
* European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009
* Vilnius Declaration of the OSCE (2009)
* Declaration on Crimes of Communism (2010)
* Stockholm Programme of the EU (2010–2015)
* Warsaw Declaration of the EU (2011)
* European Parliament resolution on the importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe (2019)

Legislation|

* Bans on communist symbols
* Communist crimes
* Act on Illegality of the Communist Regime and on Resistance Against It
* Decommunization in Russia
* Decommunization in Ukraine
* Lustration
* in Poland

Institutions|

* Black Ribbon Day
* Office for the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism
* Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
* Institute of National Remembrance
* Institute for Information on the Crimes of Communism
* House of Terror Museum
* Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records
* Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
* Reconciliation of European Histories Group
* Estonian International Commission for Investigation of Crimes Against Humanity
* Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania
* International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania
* Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
* Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies

Media|

* The Black Book of Communism (1997)
* Between Hitler and Stalin (2004)
* The Soviet Story (2008)
* Bloodlands (2010)

Opposition|

* Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests

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