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

45 points rdmuser 1 hour ago 5 comments

haunter 30 minutes ago | parent

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...

zsoltkacsandi 26 minutes ago | parent

“identifying up to 60,000 informants”

As far as I understand they released different kind of documents, and some of them might be agents’. But at this point I don’t think it is feasible to accurately differentiate who was agent and who only an informant.

haunter 25 minutes ago | parent

The title of the article is "up to 60,000 former agents revealed"

zsoltkacsandi 22 minutes ago | parent

Yes, and the first sentence used the word “informants”. See my comment above.

expedition32 7 minutes ago | parent

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.