Friday, July 8, 2022

Ján Langoš

Ján Langoš, Námestie SNP, Staré Mesto, Bratislava

Memorial to Ján Langoš, 2010
Námestie Slovenského národného povstania
Staré Mesto (Old Town)
Bratislava, September 2017

“Ján Langoš (2 August 1946, in Banská Bystrica – 15 June 2006, in Drienovec) was a Slovak politician associated with the Democratic Party. He was one of the key dissidents during the era of Communist Czechoslovakia. He served as a minister at Department of Home Affairs (1990–1992) of former Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, appointed by president Václav Havel. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia he was a member of Parliament and established the Democratic Party. After many years of conviction he succeeded in establishing the National Memory Institute. After finding documentations of crimes of several influential people and trying to open these to public, he died in a car accident.” (Ján Langoš, Wikipedia)

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