Hungary to open Communist-era informer files in reckoning with Cold War past
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Hungary is preparing to make public the records of tens of thousands of informants and collaborators who worked on behalf of the state security services during the communist era on behalf of the state security services. With the application, which coincides with the 70th anniversary of the anti-Soviet uprising in 1956, anyone will be able to search files belonging to between 50 and 60 thousand people.
Hungary opens files of communist regime’s secret services. On this year’s 70th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the communist regime and Soviet rule, the government of Peter Magyar will make public the archives of the communist period, which will include “the files of agents” and informants of the regime and the “tapes” containing the details of agents and citizens who were monitored. A historic move that implements a commitmen…
Hungary will soon begin desecreting tens of thousands of Communist police files, which will be accessible in a public database; in documents currently stored in a huge archive basement will be able to be identified informants and collaborators of former security services, transmits Tuesday the agency Reuters, quoted by Agerpres. Publication will mark ...
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HUNGARY opens a public online database with files of the secret police from the communist era. Citizens will be able to search lists of informants and collaborators to confront the totalitarian past.
Hungary to open Communist-era informer files in reckoning with Cold War past
BUDAPEST, Oct 6 - In a historic move, Hungary will soon start releasing tens of thousands of Communist-era police files in an online public database, giving people access to lists of informers and collaborators used by the former state security services. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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