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 Federation of Young Democrats (FIDESZ - now renamed as the Hungarian Civic Union). The beginning of 1989 also saw the reorganisation of the historic parties existing until 1948 (the Independent Smallholders, the Social Democrats, the People's Party of Christian Democrats). The government had no choice but to initiate negotiations with the uniformly rising opposition organisations and parties: the National Round Table talks with the Opposition Round Table parties and organisations, the HSWP, the Young Communists, the Patriotic Popular Front and the Association of Trade Unions took place between June and September. The first result of these was the reburial of Imre Nagy and his 1956 associates (on June 16). As a caprice of fate would have it János Kádár survived the ceremonial funeral by just one month. He was mourned by the "other half" of the country. (Two-and-a-half months before his death, on May 8, 1989, the man who had outlived himself and his regime was relieved of his Among the megalomaniac plans of the final years of the Ceausescu era was that of the modernisation of Romanian villages, which would have brought about the reorganisation of the Transylvanian villages inhabited by Hungarians and an end to the ethnic unity of the Hungarian population. An international movement was initiated against this planned "genocidal" destruction of villages and a demonstration in Budapest of several tens of thousands of people on June 27, 1988 (poster)