This article presents a brief overview of the current status of such laws and regulations in the former Communist Bloc. II LUSTRATION LAWS Political partisanship greatly influences the introduction and adoption or failure of lustration legislation. This is apparent in a comparison of countries of the region in which former communists continue to dominate the political
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