News tagged with: gulag

Hungarian Television Film ‘Eternal Winter’ Bags Another Award

Hungarian television film Örök tél (Eternal Winter), directed by Attila Szász, won one of the main prizes last night at...

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House Speaker Kövér: Fight against Godless and Inhumane Authoritarian Aspirations

The organisation of former Hungarian prisoners and forced labourers in the Soviet Union (Szorakész) keeps national remembrance alive and sets...

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Former Recsk Gulag to Become National Memorial Site

A national memorial site will be built at the site of the former forced labour camp at Recsk, in northern...

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Victims of Communism: The Nightmarish Forced Labor Camp Recsk, the ‘Hungarian Gulag’

During the Rákosi era, out of all the forced labor camps established in Hungary, Recsk was the most notorious one....

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‘Hungarian Gulag’ Recsk ‘Symbol of Inhumanity, Exploitation and Communist Dictatorship’ Commemorated

Confronting the fates of the survivors of the forced labour camp in Recsk, in northern Hungary, is never easy, the...

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Memory of Hungarians Deported to Soviet Labour Camps Honoured

Hungarians have a duty to honour the memories of the roughly 100 million victims of communist dictatorships worldwide, a human...

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Hungary to Receive Files of WW2 Prisoners Held in Soviet Camps

According to an agreement reached within the Russian-Hungarian Joint Archives Committee, Hungary will receive the identification documents of some 600,000...

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Malenkij Robot Memorial Space Nominated for European Museum of the Year Award

The permanent exhibition site of the Hungarian National Museum (MNM), The Circles of Hell: Malenki Robot - Forced Labor in...

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65th Anniversary of Recsk Labour Camp Closure Marked

A commemoration was held on Saturday to mark the 65th anniversary of the closing of the Recsk labour camp, also...

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“Slavery in the 20th Century”: Hungary Commemorates Gulag Prisoners

Forced labor in Soviet gulag labor camps after WWII was nothing else but “slavery in the 20th century”, Bence Rétvári,...

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Memorial To The Victims Of Communism To Be Erected Near The Danube In Budapest

A giant black marble obelisk commemorating the victims of the Communist dictatorship is planned to be erected near the Danube...

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Hungary To Erect Giant Obelisk In Honor Of GULAG Victims

Plans are to erect by the end of November an obelisk in memory of political prisoners deported to the Soviet...

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Placid Olofsson, the Hungarian “Monk of the Gulag,” has Passed Away at 100

Placid Olofsson, the Benedictine monk who was imprisoned in a Soviet Gulag from 1946 to 1955, passed away yesterday evening....

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Hungarian Gulag Victims Remembered

On Friday, November 25th, Hungarians paid tribute to those who had been deported as political prisoners to the Soviet Union....

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Researchers Uncover Missing Data Of 420 000 Hungarian WWII Prisoners Of War In Russia

The personal data of around 420 000 Hungarian soliders who became prisoners of war during the Second World War have...

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Expert Urges Erection Of Monument To Victims Of Soviet Occupation To Mark Gulag Memorial Year In Hungary

It would be necessary to erect a central monument to the victims of Hungary's Soviet occupation, which lasted between the...

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Gulag Memorial Proposed For Central Budapest As Part Of Memorial Year To Soviet Forced Labour Victims

The association of former political prisoners and forced labourers, Szórakész, has proposed erecting a Gulag memorial at Szabadság tér, central...

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Hungary Commemorates Victims Of Totalitarian Regimes

Last weekend events of commemoration took place in Budapest in order to pay tribute to the victims of the totalitarian...

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