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Discussion

The aim of our paper is to introduce the U(niversal) map as a concept, and at the same time a didactic tool, which integrates Time, Space, Identity, Historicity and Memory as categories of historical consciousness. The category of Time and Space allows monitoring the penetration of large and small history, local, national, and European historical events. In the category of Identity students have the opportunity to explore the plurality of identities in state socialism and are confronted by questions such as: Who are we? Who are they? To what extent do we identify with the political regime we live in? Through period photographs, students have the opportunity to explore specific stories of people, but also to look for parallels, similar stories in other countries of the Eastern Bloc/Europe. Talking about the place of a man in history, attention is drawn to the category of Historicity. Through period photographs, cartoons, posters, enables students to explore who and to what extent they participated in the key events that eventually led to the collapse of the socialist regime. Did these characters realize their historical role? The last category, Memory, contains the memory locations of key historical events. Students have the opportunity to explore the space in which they move daily as a place of memory that has a past that is present in various form today.