Translation of the Republic 014 The Past of Budapest: A Secret Archive of an Eastern European Family during the Cold War

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Editor's recommendation: ★ Liang Wendao, Liu Yu, Xiong Peiyun and Xu Zhiyuan, co editor in chief - one of MIRROR series (014) - keep an open mind and non utilitarian eyes, and see the richness and complexity of the world. ★ Xu Ben, a famous scholar, has read a special article, "Family stories witnessing the history of the Cold War", and another typical sample of people's life and destiny stuck between the two worlds in a country full of secret police and informant networks. ★ Everything starts with an unexpected Hungarian secret police file bag. This is a story of surveillance, informant, betrayal, betrayal, trial, imprisonment, belief, persistence, courage, release, resistance, escape, and then deliberately hide and forget. ★ In the face of an unforgettable history, should we "let sleeping dogs continue to lie down" or "open Pandora's box"? The ghost files of the secret police, which have covered for decades, have been unveiled once and for all, presenting a true case of those who hold the final moral bottom line - no betrayal, no betrayal, and improper informants. The Past of Budapest is a process of "discovering" the history of their parents, and even more, the history of that dark and horrible country is as heavy as a mountain. ★ The secret police monitored and persecuted the author's parents, but she both resented and condemned them, but sincerely thanked the secret police, because it was the huge and detailed files they recorded that made her see the history that her parents deliberately hid. Sometimes, real history is more bizarre, absurd and touching than stories and novels. Content introduction: This book reveals a family history and era sidelights that have been hidden for decades through the archives of the Hungarian secret police for 20 years during the Cold War. During the Cold War, the Hungarian secret police in the Soviet bloc tried to fully infiltrate and control Hungarian political life through a huge informant network. The author's parents were once famous Hungarian journalists. Their reports are an important source of information for the West to understand Hungary. Therefore, they were regarded as "enemies of the people", and were monitored by the secret police for a long time. They were eventually jailed for treason and espionage. After one family immigrated to the United States, the Hungarian government tried to recruit them as spies again, and the United States also monitored them for several years. The book not only restores the experience and experience of the Martens surrounded by the defendants, their resistance, persistence, vulnerability and courage, but also shows their emotional and inner contradictions - mutual emotional betrayal between husband and wife and support in the disaster, love and kinship between parents and children, strength and weakness of human nature, which makes the book more rich, complex and flesh and blood.

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