Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed

haunter

As a hungarian: agent would imply a member of the secret police which have already been released years ago. These are informants, regular people like students and teachers to members of the churches to actors and musicians etc. Also 1, this should have been released long ago cause many of these people are already dead. 2, they only released the official record of the informant. Their background, who contacted them (from the secret police), when they were approached etc. But there is nothing about actual reports, like _did they do anything at all_ or not. Even the Nobel Prize winner (2023) Karikó Katalin has a record on her yet she already wrote her autobiography years ago mentioning this, how and when she was approached and she didn't report anything at all. Now everyone have to decide on their own what to believe or not. https://szegeder.hu/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/6c145795-f972...

expedition32

One thing I noticed is that Eastern Europe is always quick to blame the Soviets for their communist dictatorships conveniently forgetting the millions of "fellow travellers" along the way.

rickdeckard

Trying to find it, but my lack of Hungarian skill is not helping: Is there a website available to search by name or anything?

agosz

If you want to search the archives that they released: https://nyitottaktak.hu/#kereses The article links to this site and that's the search page

jacquesm

Interesting how long this took. Poland cleaned house almost immediately after they kicked the russians out.