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The focus of all kinds of manipulation , instrumentalised by the government , parties and the media , “ it is memory that alienates and history that liberates ”.
This controversy over the words and the realities they denote , here too briefly recreated , is significant . In fact , the authors both argue for history as knowledge of the past and acknowledge continuities between history and memory . However , when Yuri Afanasiev underlines what Paul Ricœur would later call the “ memory ’ s truth-seeking goal ”, Pierre Nora holds onto this for the role of history as a critique of memory , bearer of illusions , myths , errors and falsifications . This debate reveals that the binary opposition between history and memory does little to enlighten us . Memory can be both instrumentalisation of the past and resistance to such instrumentalisation ; it can be both a political resource ( among others or failing others ) and a shared memory of a lived experience . As for the
3 | 4 . House of Terror at Andrássy út 60 in Budapest , Hungary . It contains exhibits related to the fascist and communist regimes in 20th-century Hungary and is also a memorial to the victims of these regimes , including those detained , interrogated , tortured or killed in the building | EUROM
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