The end of communism in Europe and, even more significantly, the enlargement of the European Union to encompass many of the former communist countries, has reactivated multiply memory “seams” or “repositories” and made the mining or re-mining of them profitable. This does not mean that there are more interactions around social memory in this part of Europe, but that this is a salient area that allows us to apply the preceding observations to regions other than Western Europe. The ending of Soviet-type regimes In Central and Eastern Europe can be said to have changed the memory referent. Specifically, two contextual resources, occasionally present at the same time and in the same space, served to intensify memory issues and favor the development of what can be called historicizing strategies – a concept I will define in this presentation. Bothe these resources represent the “conditionality” involved in joining the European Union and form what I refer to here as geopolitical asymmetry, in that they have been used as resources for dominating social memory. In sum, new configurations of “the dominated” and “the dominant” have been developed in connection with mobilizations around social memory.