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Chasing Ghosts – The British Secret Service and Béla Kun, 1939–1952

The British were tallying all the myths and legends about Kun, and sometimes they even gave credence to them….
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Elevating the Unworthy? – Part I: Communist Leaders

Poorly educated people with disgusting habits, yet still the wealthiest in the societies that suffered under and because of their rule – how can the most unworthy be elevated to such positions of power under state socialism or communism?…
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A Hero and Young Martyr of Hungary: Péter Mansfeld

The collective Hungarian memory remembers him as a modern day martyr who fought for and believed in the freedom of Hungary until his premature death….
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Lustrations and Transitional Justice in Hungary

The reports collected by the secret police were not necessarily political in nature – secret agencies collected information about the personal life of poets, sportsmen and the cultural elite, not only about the political opposition….
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Post-war Retribution or Miscarriage of Justice? – People’s Tribunals in Hungary, 1945–1949

Should we believe the court documents of a case where the prosecuted people did not deny their crimes at all, but where falsified documents have also been used? Can a trial be labelled only “partially corrupt”? Doesn’t this destroys faith…
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Can We Trust Communist Documents? – The Case of the People’s Tribunals

Find out more about the story that highlighted the unreliable nature of People’s Court documents and the necessity of judging each case according to the peculiarities of the story in question….
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Trust and Post-communist Transition

While generally speaking Western Europe is characterized by high levels of trust, Central Eastern European societies, due to the legacy of Communism, have lower trust levels, which hinders their economic and political prospects and development….
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Whoever Is Not with Them Is Against Them

Witnessing from Hungary what’s been going on in the ‘happier’ and more developed West in the past decades, we see that the parallel between genderism and communism is becoming more pronounced….
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The Unsettled Memory of Nazism and Communism

According to Douglas Murray, the rise of identity politics and wokism in the West shows that Europe has forgotten about what ‘communism’ means – so those who had lived under oppressive totalitarian regimes should gently remind the West of the…
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My Friendship with the Bollobáses and the Surprises God May Have in Store

‘And yet, at poolside that summer of 1985, if a messenger had swum over to us and said to be of good cheer, because in four years, the Berlin Wall would fall, and Communism would soon cease to exist, both…

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