Six former communist and current EU nations have demanded that Brussels push for a ban on the denial of the crimes of their region's old regimes, stating the victims had been forgotten by western countries.

"The principle of justice should assure a just treatment of the victims of every totalitarian regime," the foreign ministers of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania said in a letter to Viviane Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner.

"Public condoning, denial and gross trivialisation of totalitarian crimes should be criminalised," the six foreign ministers declare, adding that "The denial of every international crime should be treated according to the same standards, to prevent favourable conditions for the rehabilitation and rebirth of totalitarian ideologies"

A Declaration on Crimes of Communism is a declaration signed on 25 February 2010 by several prominent European politicians, former political prisoners, human rights advocates and historians, which calls for the condemnation of the regimes crimes.

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