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Remembrance in Time
The wife of the old Flórián Kruzslicz, whose son had died in the WWII as a hero, has been
humiliated, also according to a false accusation. Perhaps, that was the reason, for he – at the
age of 76 – joined the Vásárhely revolution of 1956, participated in the reorganisation of the
Smallholders’ Party. After the revolution he was accused for his activity.
A contrary example is István Fejes, who, after his persecution in 1949 kept himself
away from politics. Despite he didn’t participate in the events of the 1956 revolution,
either, he was detected for several years.
Tamás Keresztes, who couldn’t be put on kulak list as being a smallholder, became the
victim of his political activity. In August 1947 he with some other members of the
Smallholders’ Party joined the newly formed Party of Independence. That party reminded
the voters to the former Smallholders’ Party, lead by Ferenc Nagy and Béla Kovács more,
than the new party lead by Dobi. During the campaign he was beaten up by some hired
people in Csongrád. He was informed in the hospital that he got a mandate with his new
party. However, on the pressure of the communists the election court took away 49
mandates of the Party of Independence, and Keresztes – with some other delegates –
being afraid of their imprisonment, left the country. He settled down in the USA in 1949,
and he died in 1953, probably due to his injuries in Csongrád. The exact date of his death
was published by the Hungarian Népszava of America – its copies can be found in the
National Széchenyi Library.
The researches on Tamás Keresztes can be supported by the newspaper articles about his
activity, the documents of the City Council stored in the archives and his speeches in the
parliament. There is only one photo about him. His documentary heritage is in the USA.
The net of agents in Hódmezıvásárhely before 1989
Some years ago the leaders of Hódmezıvásárhely decided to release the documents
related to the local agents net, acting before 1989. A reason for this decision was to face
with the past, and to examine, how the state security methods, highly reflecting the ways
of the operation of the power, influenced the political, social, cultural and everyday life of
the city. The researcher committed by the museum prepared his detailed reports in 2009.
He gave several information about the methods of the research; his professional
experience, the relating rules and the international methods of the agents’ past.
In the first 58-page-part of the work he included the structure of the III/III organ of the
State Security Authority, the statistics of their sources of information, and the main types
of documents that were researched. Later, he listed and identified the members of the net
– so the officers, responsible for the agents’ activity, and also the persons, recruited with
code name. The latter ones had to make reports to the former ones time to time.
As a closure of his study, the author reveals the daily operative informational reports of
1989, related to Hódmezıvásárhely, he summarizes the message of his research and the
methods he used. The 500-page-enclosure, attached to the study can be found in the Historical
Archives of the State Security. It includes the summarizing reports, made by the documents
related to Vásárhely and the documents related to the concerned people of the city.
The study made in the form of a report gives the first in Hungary authentic view –
supporting on the documents of the archives – about a topic, that formerly had been
handled as a taboo – the communist informers’ net. That can have a significant influence,
due to many concerned people still alive, and can feel it detrimental to have his name and
personal data in such a form.