The conference focused on selected aspects of the Soviet invasion on East-Central Europe while fighting against Germany in the final period of the World War II (1944-1945). In particular the following problems, considered from different perspectives, were discussed:
- Red Army's attitude to the nations in the invaded and subsequently occupied territories, especially crimes committed by the Soviets against the civilian population
- Deportations of civilians to the forced labor in the Soviet Union
- Economic consequences resulting from the Soviet military presence, such as: dismantling of the industrial infrastructure (plants equipment etc.), confiscation of property, damage of the architectural substance in the captured towns and cities, and in general exploitation of the occupied area in favor of Soviet economy
- Soviet judiciary-, intimidation- and repression-system (prisons, camps, speclagry etc.)
- Soviet provisional military administration's interference with the newly established authorities of the East-Central European countries in the geopolitical context
- The contemporary memories and policy of remembrance of the Soviet presence in the former occupied territories.