Dear Hungarian Friends!

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a completely new socio-economic system appeared in the world: with the birth of the Soviet Union, the first total state in world history was created. The left-wing movements promoting communism saw in their system a critique of capital and an alternative to capitalism, but in fact they achieved the most complete concentration of capital up to that point with pure materialism, i.e. they created the most extreme capitalism to date. They spread their ideology in the world with their network connection system, infecting a significant part of the human intelligentsia, but an unfathomably dark game began under the cover of world-changing ideas. Behind the ideological warfare, a hidden economic network of interests emerged, which even in the coldest years of the Cold War collaborated with the world closed off by the Iron Curtain, and Hungary became the loophole through which they could ensure the flow of capital. A money pump was started that robbed our country. Who operated this system and how? How were the processes leading to regime change manipulated? And how much did Hungary's fatal indebtedness have to do with the so-called "goulash communism"?

(Wine guest Zsuzsanna)

We are pleased to inform you that we will continue our scientific lecture series in February.
We look forward to seeing you online on Saturday, February 18

Speakers:

Dr. Gábor Horváth-Lugossy, Director-General of the Institute for Hungarian Studies
Dr. Zsuzsanna Borvendég, Scientific Associate of the Historical Research Center of the Institute for Hungarian Studies

The title of the presentation:
In the trap of communist networks

"It's not enough to know the truth, it's not enough to say it bravely: you also have to burn for it." - says historian Zsuzsanna Borvendég, whose field of research is the history of Hungary after 1945, the functioning of the secret services and the political police; Research of Hungary's role in the Cold War, as well as the activities of opposition movements and the connections between regime change. A research associate at the Historical Research Center of the Hungarian Research Institute, he is the author of such popular, brave and incomplete works as The Age of Impex, The Secret Life of Hungary in Kádár, The Money of the Network or The Fabulous Spy Games.

Participation in the online event is free, but registration is required.
Please indicate your intention to participate  [email protected]  ! The Zoom link will be sent to those interested in the days before the performance. Please forward the informational poster in the attachment to your friends and acquaintances! Application deadline: February 16 .

The start time of the online presentation is on Saturday, February 18 in the different time zones:
Hungary: 4 pm
Subcarpathia: 5 pm
Transylvania: 5
New York: 10 am
Texas:
Arizona 8 am
California: 7 am
Argentina, Buenos Aires: 12 pm
Australia, Sydney: 2am ( February 19 )

Sincerely, the organizers:
Ildikó Pataki (San Francisco, California)
Tulipán Sarolta (Atlanta, Georgia)