V4 YEAR BY YEAR

Collage of the political, social and cultural events of Visegrad countries Czech republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary from the end of the Second World War until nowadays.

The unique interconnection of the history of the four Central European countries is a significant contribution to European historical discourse. During the Cold War, the concept of Central Europe almost lost its meaning, only the West and the East existed. After the fall of the totalitarian regimes, it started to gain importance and now Central Europe is again perceived as one of the relevant territorial constituents which is united by more than just a geographical location.

The comparative overview V4 YEAR BY YEAR helps us to realize our mutual roots and to fill in the gaps in the description of the historic development of the countries at the heart of Europe.

Websites with texts in Czech, Hungarian, Polish and English offer detailed overview of totalitarian times facts in all mentioned countries between 1944 and 1990. Faced with all the most significant moments on a single time line, visitors are able to form a picture of the features shared by the totalitarian systems that controlled society in the different states, and how the citizens of these countries coped with them.

Last two decades will be described in collection of essays written by significant personalities of public life in each country. It will be accompanied by period photographs and other materials that will be during summer and fall 2011 presented in exhibitions in Prague, Bratislava, Budapest and Krakow.

V4 Year by Year project set in public benefit corporation OPONA (the Curtain) and is closely connected with the join anniversary of the Visegrad countries - the 20th anniversary of the disestablishment of the Warsaw Pact and withdrawal of its troops from their countries analogous to another OPONA project the Week of Freedom.

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June 27th, 2011 V4 year by year in Park Kampa

March 6th, 2011 Visit the exhibition V4 year by year

October 17th, 2011 V4 Year by Year exhibition invites people in Bratislava to the homonymic online project from today morning.

November 7th, 2011 V4 Year by Year is heading to Krakow

November 14th, 2011 Last destination of the V4 Year by Year exhibition: Budapest

December 19th, 2011 The Year by Year exhibition in Polish Nowy Sacz

February 28th, 2011 First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Karel Schwarzenberg gave patronage to the Year by Year project.