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Remembrance in Time
During the Kádár Regime the state security system was in control of the party, opposed
to the „SDA” which was a state within the state. This meant that the county police
superintendent or his assistant of the State Security had to inform the first secretary of the
county, who forwarded the information to the responsible organs of the Hungarian
Socialist Party and the main party leaders.
The State Security employed agents in a great number to be able to control every step of
the society. There were agents who became member of the network on voluntary basis
but there were agents who had been blackmailed before becoming a member.
The agents provided their reports mostly in written form. The majority of these reports
were destroyed before the change of regime in 1989.
In Hódmezıvásárhely, situated in South-East of Hungary there are plenty of materials
of local agents regarding to the 1960’s. The researches, done in the Historical Archives of
the State Security prove that the “consigners” were interested mainly in the information
about the human-intellectuals and the artists. The temporary exhibition titled “Detected
Arts” 3 was organized in 2012 according to the discovered reports. This is the first
possibility, when the visitors of the museums in Hungary can get a view in the processes
of the communist state security – through the reports about several local artists.
The artists and writers of Hódmezıvásárhely grouped around two old masters. The
political police identified these people and constantly controlled them. For their control
they organized agents that belonged to the circle of friends around the masters.
Agents appearing in our exhibition called ‘Detected Art’
„Gáspár Szabó”He mainly wrote his reports about young and independent
intellectuals, and the members of the Galyasi- and Bibó circle. Miklós Galyasi had been
the founder and first director of the Tornyai János Museum and Lajos Bibó was a wellknown
playwright before 1944.
A glimpse at a civilian’s biography of Vásárhely
Gyızı Moldvay (Hódmezıvásárhely, 12th June 1925. – Hatvan, 4th August 1996)
He was a poet, journalist and editor. He maturated at Gábor Bethlen High School in
1944.
He published his writings in two local papers, in ‘Vásárhely Népe’ and the ‘Vásárhelyi
Független Újság’ between 1944 and 1951. He got his degree at Teachers’ Training
College of Szeged in 1957. He became the director of the Petıfi Community Centre
between 1952 and 1954, and later he was the editor of the ‘Vásárhelyi Szó’, a local
journal between 1955 for 1956.
Between 28th of October and the 14th of November in 1956 he was the editor of
‘Vásárhelyi Nemzeti Újság’ (National Newspaper of Hódmezıvásárhely), the official
newspaper of the revolutionists. Due to his activity during the revolution he was interned
on the 17 th of December, 1956, but instead of starting a legal procedure against him he
became free by the end of the year.
3 Web: www.megfigyelt.hu (18th of September, 2012)