He decided to ensure that the documents to which he had access were at least published. He planned to put together volumes on the secret police and on Stalin’s chief henchmen, and a series on the Party’s foreign activities, including a book on the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968. If everyone had access to the facts on paper, it would be harder to lie about history, he reasoned. The documents might also make it possible to tell the truth—if anyone ever did find a way to begin making sense of the past. He assembled a team of ten people, if you counted the administrative assistant, the
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