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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 29/09/2026

Peace Square Evenings continues on Oct 8! Is Peace a Human Right? The Democratic Opposition and Peace in the 1980s explores opposition movements and ideas of peace in late socialist Eastern Europe. 🔗 archivum.org/events/is-pe...

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Is Peace a Human Right? The Democratic Opposition and Peace in the 1980s

The third event of the series “Evenings on Peace Square” will feature a roundtable discussion with Miklós Haraszti and Ferenc Ruzsa, moderated by Zsolt Enyedi.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 29/09/2026

🌙 Researchers’ Night at Blinken OSA Archivum! A curatorial tour, a lively panel discussion, and a unique workshop exploring “flawed” photographs from the Főfotó collection. Thank you to everyone who joined us for an inspiring evening! 📷

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 23/09/2026

For over two decades, Verzió has been an important forum in Hungary for documentary film and human rights, reaching more than 270,000 people. The HUF 50 million grant is the largest state funding the festival has received to date. 🎬

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 23/09/2026

🎬 Great news for Verzió! The National Film Institute has awarded HUF 50 million to support the 23rd Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, taking place Nov 16–25, 2026. More: www.verzio.org/en

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 14/09/2026

📚 Our multidisciplinary teaching brings together archives, history, human rights, evidentiary practices, contested histories, and documentary cinema—combining theory with hands-on archival research. Read more: archivum.org/news/ay-2026...

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AY 2026/27 Begins at the Archivum

The new academic year kicked off at the Archivum with Orientation Week for incoming students.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 14/09/2026

🎓 AY 2026/27 begins at the Archivum! During Orientation Week, incoming CEU students met our staff, explored archival materials, learned about research opportunities, and discovered the Archivum’s postgraduate courses and specializations. Photos: Dániel Végel

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 10/09/2026

The 1990 elections across the Soviet republics produced strikingly different outcomes. Why? Dima Kortukov explores how electoral design, political reform, and tensions between the republics and Moscow shaped this pivotal moment. 📅 Sept 14, 3:00 p.m. 🔗 archivum.org/events/1990-...

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1990 Parliamentary Elections and the End of the USSR: Understanding Electoral Design

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA by Dima Kortukov, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Alabama.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 10/09/2026

📚 Visegrad Lecture Series How did electoral rules shape the final years of the Soviet Union? Join Dima Kortukov for a lecture on the 1990 parliamentary elections and the political struggles that helped shape the USSR’s collapse. 📅 Sept 14, 3:00 p.m. 📍 Blinken OSA Archivum

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 04/09/2026

🎓 Results are in! The July 2026 Visegrad Scholarship at OSA selection is complete. Congratulations to all researchers who received full or partial support, and thank you to everyone who applied! See the results & projects: archivum.org/hu/news/resu... Photo: Fortepan, RFE/RL transmitting station

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 31/08/2026

📚 We’re ready to welcome researchers back! The Blinken OSA Archivum Research Room reopens on September 2, with improved services and several recently available collections waiting to be explored. 🕙 Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 31/08/2026

📚 Our Research Room reopens on September 2! We return to our regular opening hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m. Explore newly available collections and learn about recent improvements to our research services. archivum.org/news/researc...

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Research Room Reopens on September 2

We begin the 2026–27 AY with new collections and improved services.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 28/08/2026

📚 The Erzsébet Kajári Collection is now open for research at Blinken OSA Archivum, with records on Hungary’s Ministry of the Interior and Kajári’s Holocaust research, including anti-Jewish laws and witness testimonies. Learn more: archivum.org/news/erzsebe...

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Erzsébet Kajári Document Collection Now Accessible

Primary sources and curiosities on the Ministry of the Interior.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 28/08/2026

📚 Now accessible: the Erzsébet Kajári Collection. From records on Hungary’s Ministry of the Interior (1945–1986) to Holocaust research materials, the collection includes state security documents, anti-Jewish laws, witness testimonies, and more.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 10/08/2026

📚 György Litván’s Oscar Jászi research materials are now accessible at the Blinken OSA Archivum. The first cataloged series reflects Litván’s decades-long engagement with Jászi’s life, work, and political thought. 🔎 archivum.org/news/gyoergy...

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György Litván's Oscar Jászi Research Materials Accessible

An intersection of a researcher's subject and own experience.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 03/08/2026

Photo: András Zoltai SZENES Zsuzsa: Peace Sign, 1987 BTM – Kiscelli Museum – Municipal Gallery, Budapest

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 03/08/2026

Notice to Our Visitors Due to the extraordinary weather conditions and related energy considerations, the Galeria Centralis will remain closed throughout this week. We will inform our visitors about the reopening date in due course. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 28/07/2026

Grant files, project plans, methodological papers, interview transcripts, and anthropological writings reveal the history and vision behind one of Hungary's most significant collections of home movies and amateur photographs. Read more: archivum.org/news/textual...

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Textual Records of the Privát Fotó és Film Alapítvány

Trace back the process how PFFA worked!

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 28/07/2026

📷 A family photo album is more than a collection of memories—it is also a historical source. The Blinken OSA Archivum has expanded the records of the Privát Fotó és Film Foundation (PFFA) with newly processed textual documents.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 21/07/2026

Late Soviet Higher Education and Mechanisms of Its Loyalty: A Comparative Context during the Cold War (1965–1985) In this Visegrad Lecture, Alexander Dmitriev explores Soviet universities, social mobility, and political conformity through the unique RFE/RL archives. More:https://shorturl.at/Nj6zp

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Late Soviet higher education and mechanisms of its loyalty: a comparative context during the Cold War (1965–1985)

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA by Alexander Dmitriev, Assistant Professor, Charles University, Prague.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 21/07/2026

Late Soviet Higher Education and Mechanisms of Its Loyalty: A Comparative Context during the Cold War (1965–1985) by Alexander Dmitriev. Visegrad Lecture Series 📅 July 22, 2026, 11:00 AM 📍 Archivum, Meeting Room 💻 Online: shorturl.at/AVefo

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 21/07/2026

The Intellectual and Literary Heritage of Ukrainian Émigrés in Post-World War II Europe Join Iryna Yakovenko for a Visegrad Lecture on how Ukrainian émigré writers and publishers preserved cultural identity after WWII through literature and print. More: shorturl.at/PKQce

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The Intellectual and Literary Heritage of Ukrainian Émigrés in Post-World War II Europe

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA by Iryna Yakovenko, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Translation, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropo...

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 21/07/2026

Visegrad Lecture Series July 22, 2026, 11:00 AM Archivum, Meeting Room Online: shorturl.at/AVefo The Intellectual and Literary Heritage of Ukrainian Émigrés in Post-World War II Europe by Iryna Yakovenko,

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🎙️ In our new podcast, István Rév discusses the vision behind the @archivum.org, and also reflects on how it defended democratic culture by opening to researchers, students, artists, and the wider public. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/4fsczuby

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 14/07/2026

📂 Now Available for Research: The László Karvalics Papers The collection reveals how media policy and political communication were managed in 1980s Hungary, through confidential reports, internal Party documents, appointment diaries, and handwritten notes. #Archives #History #Hungary

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 14/07/2026

Now Available for Research: The László Karvalics Papers Confidential reports, media policy proposals, documents related to János Kádár’s speeches, and the Party leadership’s confidential telephone directories offer a rare insight into Hungary’s state-socialist regime. archivum.org/news/laszlo-...

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László Karvalics Personal Papers: Agitprop from Within

The papers of the Deputy Head of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (MSZMP) are open to researchers.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 09/07/2026

📢 VISEGRAD SCHOLARSHIP AT OSA – NEW CALL! Applications are open for the 2026/27 Visegrad Scholarship at the Blinken OSA Archivum. 🎓 MA degree required 📅 Deadline: 25 July 2026 Apply: archivum.org/academics/vi...

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Visegrad Scholarship at OSA

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 09/07/2026

📢 VISEGRAD SCHOLARSHIP AT OSA – NEW CALL! How do we name and understand reality in a rapidly changing world? Join the 2026/27 Visegrad Scholarship and explore "Naming Reality" through archives, media, documentary practices, and culture. 📅 Deadline: 25 July 2026

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 07/07/2026

📚 Summer opening hours The Blinken OSA Archivum Research Room closes at 2:00 p.m. on Fridays throughout July and will be closed from August 3 to September 1 (including online reference services). Full details: archivum.org/news/summer-... Reopens September 2.

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Summer Break in the Research Room

Please plan your visits accordingly.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 07/07/2026

📚 Summer opening hours at the Blinken OSA Archivum Research Room Please note our revised summer schedule. The Research Room closes early on Fridays in July and will be closed from August 3 to September 1. Galeria Centralis remains open throughout the summer.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/07/2026

How can home movies reshape Cold War history? Join Julieta Keldjian Etcheessarry on July 8, 11:00 AM at the Blinken OSA Archivum or online to explore amateur Super 8 archives from Hungary and Uruguay. Details & Zoom: archivum.org/events/super...

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Super 8 and Its Archives: Archival Mediation and Amateur Media Research

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA by Julieta Keldjian Etchessarry, Departamento de Humanidades y Comunicación. Archivo Audiovisual Prof. Dina Pintos - C...

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/07/2026

📸 Super 8 and Its Archives: Archival Mediation and Amateur Media Research with Julieta Keldjian Etcheessarry explores how amateur films from Hungary and Uruguay offer new perspectives on Cold War history, memory, and everyday life through home movies.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/07/2026

How did Holocaust restitution become part of the democratic transition after the fall of Communism? Join Joshua Leifer (Yale University) on July 8, 11:00 AM at the Blinken OSA Archivum or online. Zoom link and details: archivum.org/events/the-p...

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The Politics of Restitution and the Making of the Liberal Order

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA by Joshua Leifer, PhD candidate at Yale University.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/07/2026

📸 The Politics of Restitution and the Making of the Liberal Order with Joshua Leifer (Yale University) explores how Holocaust restitution became a cornerstone of democratic transition after 1989, linking historical justice with the rule of law, democracy, and European integration.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/07/2026

The 41st Annual Meeting of the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation (#ECCHRD) is underway at the Blinken OSA Archivum. Read more about the meeting and this year's program: archivum.org/news/41st-an...

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41st Annual Meeting of the ECCHRD at the Archivum

For the third time after 2011 and 2016, the Archivum hosts the Annual Meeting of the ECCHRD.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 02/07/2026

Snapshots from the 41st Annual Meeting of the European Coordination Committee on Human Rights Documentation (#ECCHRD), hosted by the Blinken OSA Archivum in Budapest. Archivists, librarians, and information managers from across Europe are meeting to discuss the future of human rights documentation.

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🎙️ In the new episode of our series produced in collaboration with @archivum.org, Bethan Winter shares the fascinating story from 1978, when philosophers traveled to Czechoslovakia to teach philosophy. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/sycf4p9j

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🆕 Challenging Archives is our new podcast series co-produced with the @archivum.org, featuring the Visegrad Fellows. 🎙️ In the first episode, Eszter Szabó-Reznek discusses Hungarian-language theater in socialist Romania. 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/muymswkb

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 24/06/2026

📸 Older adults left more traces in the archives than we often assume. Discover how seniors organized, protested, and advocated for pensions and care under state socialism in East-Central Europe. With Maren Hachmeister. July 1, 11:15 AM. Online: shorturl.at/4CmB1

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 24/06/2026

Older adults were not just passive recipients of state policies. Join Maren Hachmeister as she explores senior activism in socialist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR through letters, petitions, self-organized groups, and strikes. July 1, 11:15 AM. archivum.org/events/senio...

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Senior Activism in State Socialist East-Central Europe

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA by by Maren Hachmeister, Postdoctoral researcher at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dre...

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 19/06/2026

A few moments from the opening of On Peace Square – The Peace Group for Dialogue. Through archival documents, state security records, and personal stories, the exhibition revisits the history of independent peace activism in 1980s Hungary. Photos: András Zoltai

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 19/06/2026

Yesterday, Galeria Centralis opened its new exhibition, On Peace Square – The Peace Group for Dialogue. The exhibition explores the story of one of Hungary’s most remarkable grassroots peace initiatives of the 1980s and the enduring relevance of dialogue and civic action.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 16/06/2026

🇵🇱➡️🇯🇵 Visegrad Lecture Series: *From Solidarność to Editorial Activism: The Reception of Polish Opposition Movements in Japan* by Anna Nakai. June 24, 11:00 AM | Archivum & online: shorturl.at/4CmB1 More info: shorturl.at/hdCT1

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Translating “Solidarność” into Japanese—Editorial Activism, Alternative Societal Visions, Global Transfer of Ideas

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA by Anna Nakai, Researcher and Part-time Lecturer at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 16/06/2026

📷 How did Poland’s Solidarność movement inspire readers in Japan? Join Anna Nakai (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) for a Visegrad Lecture on translation, activism, and the global circulation of ideas across Cold War borders. 📅 June 24, 11:00 AM

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 12/06/2026

🎬 Visegrad Lecture Series Chornobyl was more than a nuclear disaster—it reshaped politics, society, and culture across Eastern Europe. Join Stanislav Menzelevsky for a lecture on Chornobyl cinema and the post-Soviet transition. 📅 June 17, 11:00 AM 📍 Archivum, Budapest More: shorturl.at/yPrwo

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Chornobyl Cinema: Ecology, Technology, and Film in Ukraine

We are happy to announce the next presentation of the Visegrad Scholarship at OSA by Stanislav Menzelevsky, PhD Candidate, Indiana University, USA

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 12/06/2026

🎬 Visegrad Lecture Series How did Soviet and Ukrainian cinema represent nuclear modernity before and after Chornobyl? Stanislav Menzelevsky (Indiana University) explores film, ecology, and political change from 1972–1996. 📅 June 17, 11:00 🔗 shorturl.at/AVefo

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 11/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈📚 How were LGBTQIA+ histories documented, preserved, and remembered? Join the opening of Records Uncovered and a roundtable featuring Blinken OSA Archivum’s Csaba Szilágyi at CEU Vienna on June 16. More: archivum.org/hu/events/632

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Records Uncovered: LGBTQIA+ Histories, Activism, and Politics in Hungary and Beyond

Roundtable and opening of Records Uncovered, an exhibition on LGBTQIA+ histories, activism, and politics, on view June 16–30.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 11/06/2026

📸🏳️‍🌈 Records Uncovered opens at CEU Vienna on June 16. Developed by Blinken OSA Archivum and the Háttér Archive & Library, the exhibition traces LGBTQIA+ activism in Central and Southeastern Europe, 1945–1999. Our colleague Csaba Szilágyi joins the opening roundtable.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 09/06/2026

How did young activists imagine peace and civic action in 1980s Hungary? On Peace Square – The Peace Group for Dialogue revisits a unique grassroots movement through archival sources, reports, and personal stories. Opening June 18, 6 PM at Galeria Centralis.

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Blinken OSA Archivum @archivum.org · 09/06/2026

Exhibition Opening | June 18, 6 PM On Peace Square – The Peace Group for Dialogue explores peace activism, political agency, and dialogue in 1980s Hungary through archival documents and state security records. Free until Oct 25. More: tinywebs.site/WclVYN

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On Peace Square – The Peace Group for Dialogue

The exhibition explores how young Hungarian peace activists sought to organize an autonomous movement independent of both the state apparatus and the democratic opposition.

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