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The Knowledge Problem in Central Planning

Central planning is not viable because it can never collect enough information about the market to optimally coordinate economic interactions. It is also a path that may lead to a totalitarian state….

Museum Dedicated to the Victims of Communism Opened in Washington D.C. with Hungarian Contribution

With 1.5 billion people still living under Communist dictatorships, viewing the collapse of the USSR as the end of the horrors of Communism is misguided. The Victims of Communism Museum in Washington D.C., opened this summer with financial contribution from…

Debated Public Spaces — Poland’s State Socialist Era Statues

The war in Ukraine has renewed the controversy over Communist era statues in Poland. The country is now being purged of the remaining Soviet monuments….

Communist Dictatorships Deprive Nations of Their History

Over the last couple of years the censorship of historical narratives has intensified in China. The assault on history is shared by all communist dictatorships and it goes against the conservative understanding of societies….

Budapest Purged of Lenin Monuments: 30th Anniversary of Hungary’s Post-Regime Change Iconoclasm

30 years ago, dozens of statues were removed from public places all across Hungary. The Iconoclasm of the 1990s was not only a symbolic event of the regime change, but also a moment of democratic awakening for Hungary….

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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