31. On Friday, a local priest will preside over a simple ceremony which acknowledges the family not by name, but merely as victims of the Communist era. 32. Poland is the only country in the former Warsaw Pact to have changed the abortion policies of the Communist era. 33. Some of the subjects are taken by surprise by the filmmaker, and often the paranoia left over from the communist era is evident. 34. Tensions remain high in Ukraine, where the Ukrainian Catholic Church has reclaimed what had become Orthodox churches during the Communist era. 35. The castle was confiscated during the communist era. 36. The dominant ideology is a form of state nationalism in which elements of pluralism mix uneasily with authoritarian structures and impulses carried over from the communist era. 37. The fate of national history in countries incorporated into others in the Communist era was even harsher than in those that retained their sovereignty, however limited. 38. The former East Germany is unique among countries of the former Warsaw Pact in directly confronting the communist era. 39. The former interior minister, Jan Ruml, who like Havel was a dissident during the communist era, said the speech was too harsh. 40. The institution had taken repeated critical batterings during the Communist era, when it was forced to play poor relation to the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. |