Borvendég Zsuzsanna: Fabulous Spy Games. How international trade networks with the West developed after 1945 - A Magyarságkutató Intézet Kiadványai 24. (Budapest, 2021)

EMIL HOFFMAN AND HIS CIRCLES - The road to the Stasi

FABULOUS SPY GAMES

worst enemy, whose nexuses were used to build the economic background to the Soviet Bloc. Business deals were made with prominent figures of the Third Reich on one side, and often people who had been personally persecuted on the other not long previously. There is no friendship in business, or so the saying goes, but it seems there are no enemies, either. The building of the network that took control of Hungarian foreign trade after 1945 perfectly illustrates the contradictions of this bipolar world.

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