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J. Kolanović, Autonomija arhivske službe, Arh. vjesn., god. 42(1999), str. 29^t2 sed truth has been creating false picture of the past. Very often, hidden and suppressed truth was also a source for manipulation of history and a way of suppression of democratic development. And even more than that. As some truth had been hidden and it has not been allowed to know the whole historical truth, it has left disastrous consequences especially within the multi- national countries. Some historical persons could even not be mentioned and facts have been suppressed and evidences hidden. For example, when exhibitions have been designed, some faces had just been cut out from photographs, because they have been excommunicated from the historical memory. Hard rule from the Roman period "nomen memoriae domnatum" name to which every track should be destroyed, had been applied to such persons. Particular documents that have been throwing light, different than official one, had been hidden from eyes of objective historians and public. Let us note here the exhibition organized under the tittle "Prohibited history", by the Czech's press agency ČTK, in the year 1998 (com. Vjesnik, October 28, 1998), which very well illustrates archives dependence on politics. The exhibition showed a representative selection of censored photographs and documents, from the ČKT Archives, in the period of the totalitarian regime of the German protectorate 1939-1945 and period of communism 1948-1989. The exhibition presents photographs that were censored in various ways and different levels, as for example "it is not allowed to publish", "no use," "censored", "unsuitable person", "forbidden", and similarly. Unsuitable persons have been retouched on many photographs, persons that, during "the course of history", from the most eminent leaders become "national enemies". c) Autonomy of archives has also its deeper roots: it begins with understanding of archive service and archivistics as a scientific discipline and with application of some fundamental archival principles (like is appraisal of records), and with priorities put by archive service of a particular country. An example may be found in the arrangement of archives so that it could be available to the public (priority of arrangement). Maybe the most drastic example of ideologized archive service is expressed in the textbook "Archivistik" from ex DDR written in '80s. That textbook is a valuable contribution to the development of archivistics from a professional and scientific point of wives. However, since it was created in a specific political system it is completely ideologized, all theory and praxis have been subordinated to the theories of Marxism and Leninism as an basic standard for archival appraisal and arrangement. Archivistics and archival service have been conceived as a part ofthat ideologized system. However, more ominous than those ideologized propositions (which today can easily be threw out from the textbook and the book has its values) have been its consequences on the archival service development. Therefore practical consequen38