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

Young Communists, the Patriotic People's Front, and the peasants had yet again been funnelled into agricultural cooperatives (1961), open force disappeared, and indeed in 1963 the majority of the political prisoners given amnesty. This was led up to by the United Nations continually placing the "Hungarian Question" on the day's agenda from the November of 1956 - not least as a result of international protests organised by Hungarian émigrés but its five-man inspectorate was not even permitted to enter the country. At this, Hungary's UN membership dated 1955 was suspended. In 1962, as a result of secret USAAladár Farkas: Workers' militiaman, 1960s (bronze) Hungarian discussions, the American UN delegation initiated the removal of the Hungarian question from the assembly's agenda, in exchange for which János Kádár announced a general amnesty in the Hungarian parliament. The stridency of the propaganda of the previous years became more muted, appearing in an increasingly more sophisticated coating, though its content repeated itself rituaiistically