‘Traitors in every family’: Hungary to unmask communist-era informants and confront past
THE GUARDIAN · LONDON — 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…
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- 02 November 2026 · 07:09 UTC
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