Lustration definition
Lustration means the disbarment of officials of a previous regime from public office on the basis of violations and abuses of human rights committed by them.
Lustration. Act). This means that, according to the mentioned Act, the mere membership in the Communist Party during the decisive period, which might have lasted for only a brief time, is such a grave circumstance that to place such persons into any of the offices referred to it is capable of threatening the „democratic operation“ of the Institute and Archive.