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Excerpt from Property Restitution, Compensation, and Preservation: Competing Claims in Post-Communist Europe; Hearing Before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, July 18, 1996 The wrongdoing inflicted by the regimes of the Eastern Bloc came in many forms and shapes, and accountability for these crimes may, in the end, also come in many forms. In today's hear ing we hope to begin our examination of this subject by focusing on one specific form of abuse perpetrated over the past several dec ades: the wrongful confiscation of property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.