07.08.2025

Documentary film on the CSCE Final Act released as part of the conference “The Spirit of Helsinki – then and now”

As part of the international conference “The Spirit of Helsinki then and now,” which The Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Germany organized from June 10 to 13, 2025, together with the University of Helsinki, the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, the Goethe Institute Finland, and other partners on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the CSCE Final Act, a documentary film with historical footage from German and Finnish television archives was produced, which we highly recommend. anniversary of the signing of the CSCE Final Act, a documentary film with historical footage from German and Finnish television archives was created, which we highly recommend.

Numerous prominent experts and contemporary witnesses have their say, including:
Michael Zantovsky (CSSR/Czech Republic), Gert Weisskirchen (Federal Republic of Germany), Myroslav Marynovych (USSR/Ukraine), Prof. Michael Cotey Morgan (USA), Anna Sabatova (CSSR/Czech Republic), Prof. Sarah B. Snyder (USA), Irina Scherbakowa (USSR/Russia), Stephan Krawczyk (GDR/Germany), Ieva Akuratere (USSR/Latvia), Vratislav Brabenec & Eva Turnova (CSSR/Czech Republic).