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‘Traitors in every family’: Hungary to unmask communist-era informants and confront past

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“‘Traitors in every family’: Hungary to unmask communist-era informants and confront past”

From 1945 to 1989 security police relied on tens of thousands of spies to suppress dissent. To rebuild trust, their files will finally be made public Hungary’s new government will on Wednesday reveal the names of tens of thousands of state informants from the communist era in an attempt to confront the past and rebuild public trust. From 1945 to 1989, Hungary’s communist state-security services relied on an extensive network of informants to monitor society and suppress dissent. Some were…

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