Baják László Ihász István: The Hungarian National Museum History Exhibition Guide 4 - The short century of survival (1900-1990) (Budapest, 2008)

Room 20. The Rise and Fall of Communism (1945-1990). István Ihász

The assembly, chosen from the uniform Popular Front register, accepted Statute XX of 1949 concerning the Constitution of the Hungarian Republic on the basis of the 1936 Soviet model. Hungary was declared a People's Republic, its state form being a proletariat dictatorship and its objective the construction of a socialist social order. It abolished the separation of legislative and executive power, it pointed to the transference of industry into public ownership and designated as an objective the cooperative union of the peasantry. Formally the highest organ of state power remained the national assembly, which came together once or twice a year and consisted partly of uneducated popular representatives. On the basis of proposals by the government, the Presidential Council supervised the function of law-making by order. The state coat-of-arms was also changed: the one used since 1946 and known as the Kossuth Crest was ousted from public use due to its nationalistic character, while the new construction called forth a wheat ear and A Peace-Loan bond and detail from an advertising poster. In 1949 the government issued a Plan Loan, and every year between 1950-1955 Peace Loans, subscription to which was obligatory