Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed(www.euronews.com)

77 pointsby rdmuser3 hours ago2 comments

haunter2 hours ago
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...
- Grimetonan hour ago
  >1, this should have been released long ago cause many of these people are already dead.
  Best that can happen. People will be disappointed but that's it. If the IMs are still alive it can get really ugly really quick.
- zsoltkacsandian hour ago
  “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.
  - haunteran hour ago
    The title of the article is "up to 60,000 former agents revealed"
    zsoltkacsandian hour ago
    Yes, and the first sentence used the word “informants”. See my comment above.
- cucumber3732842an hour ago
  >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.
  Yes and? That they did it for free instead of for pay is supposed to make it better?
  - slibhban hour ago
    And agent is not the same as informer. Whether it's better, worse, or the same is up to you.
  - perching_aixan hour ago
    "i like waffles"
    "oh so you HATE pancakes?!"
    this is to say, no, it just means what it means. rest is all you man.
expedition32an hour ago
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.
- dwrobertsan hour ago
  Hungary had a revolution against Soviet control that was brutally suppressed and hundreds of thousands of people fled or were exiled. So yes, the Soviets were absolutely responsible for their communist dictatorship because they killed or removed anyone that did not comply
  - aliasxneoan hour ago
    I don't know why the ignorance level of what happened in some of these countries during these years is so high. Seriously, did they just stop teaching it at some point? I don't get it.
  - enaaem36 minutes ago
    And that's exactly where the term 'tankie' comes from.
- renw0rp38 minutes ago
  You are right, we should be blaming Americans and British for selling us in Yalta.
- bell-cot18 minutes ago
  General Soviet policy for areas where "everybody" resisted their yoke was to kill off everybody. Purists in comfy philosophy classrooms are free to argue whether or not that is the morally optimal outcome.