In Slovakia, a long-term discussion was held about the need to found a museum about communism, but until now, there was no successful effort to found such a museum remembering the recent history of the communist rule. Only after almost 32 years since the fall of communism, the first multimedia museum, dedicated to the victims of the rule of their own state, has come into the existence. Museum puts forward victims, who were persecuted from various political reasons during the 40 years of the communist rule. It covers two periods of communism – the years 1945 to 1968 – the so-called hard persecutions and the period from 1969 to 1989 – the so-called a period of normalization, when citizens were persecuted by sophistic methods that kept people in constant fear.

Even during a short stay in the museum, its visitor seemed to have passed and stopped at the milestones that characterize the various periods and forms of persecution. At the same time, one can listen to video testimonies of those who have become class enemies in their own country.

The primary focus group, to which the museum is geared towards, is high-school students, but also other groups of younger and older people. Within the main exposition room and also in the samizdat library we can find „classrooms“ where the visitors can hold a discussions about the presented themes, either with their history teacher or the museum guide.