Poll: most Czechs of opinion country has not come to terms with StB collaborators

Most Czechs do not think the country has sufficiently come to terms with those who collaborated with the communist-era secret police, the StB, a poll conducted by the Median agency suggests. The results were published in Lidove noviny on Friday. Fifty-four percent of respondents hold the view that Czechs have not come to terms, while 16 percent say the opposite. As for lustration, roughly a third of those polled said it should remain in place, a third said it had served its purpose. Under the lustration, or screening law, those who wish to hold public positions must prove they did not collaborate with the StB.

The new opinion poll was published on the eve of the 18th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution.