The archives concerned contain the documents of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party and its predecessors, other left-wing political and social organisations as well as trade unions.

PTI Chief Director György Földes told the papers that the state had expropriated the documents without compensation.

He said the institute would be prepared to hand them over but the Hungarian state should reimburse the hundreds of million forints it cost to store the documents and make them accessible to researchers.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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