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

https://mins.news/en/item/125034

- The Guardian, 2026-11-02 07:09 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/02/hungary-informant-names-revealed-communist-era-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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