Politics‘Traitors in every family’: Hungary to expose communist-era informants and face its past

Hungary’s new government plans to publish the names of tens of thousands of communist-era state informants, saying the move can confront the past and rebuild public trust. From 1945 to 1989, state-security services used informants to monitor society and suppress dissent. The files are to be released through a searchable online database.

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