Századok – 2011
KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Pihurik Judit: A népi demokrácia aláaknázása egy szekszárdi borospincében I/143
160 PIHURIK JUDIT re figyelemre méltó az, hogy egy ilyen kis baráti társaságban is egyszerre több ügynök működött, és ha egy-kettő kihullott a rostán, azonnal akadt helyettük új - persze nem tudhatjuk, mivel vették rá őket az együttműködésre. A józan ésszel gondolkodva meglehetősen alacsony intenzitásúnak minősíthető magántársasági rendszerellenesség fényében időnként érthetetlennek tűnik az a vehemens és hosszú távú munkaráfordítás, amivel ezeket az embereket ellenőrizték, hiszen aligha jelentettek fenyegetést a hatalom számára. Úgy tűnik, hogy számontartásuk és megfigyelésük leginkább az államvédelem/állambiztonság avítt drilljéből következett. „A szerv" — különösen a Kádár-korszak konszolidált éveiben — elsősorban saját nélkülözhetetlenségét igyekezett bizonygatni a marginális súlyú megfigyelések fenntartásával. UNDERMINING POPULAR DEMOCRACY IN A WINECELLAR AT SZEKSZÁRD by Judit Pihurik (Summary) The life of N. I., doctor, is followed by the security reports from 1945 until the middle of the 1970s. First picked out as a former officer of the Horthy army, and member of the Hungarian Brotherhood Community, he was later kept nder supervision because of his role in the Revolution of 1956. His dossier is worthy of attention, for most of the documents report on private life situations: they preserve the memory of meetings with friends and other acquaintances and the words uttered there, and the observers also belonged to the same circle. The content of the reports was before all conditioned by the expectations, and its rethoric is determined by „the language of power". The value of the documents as historical sources should be assessed in view of these factors, and it should also be kept in mind that these texts went through a multiple fdtering process before finally put to writing. Although the real message and intention of the person reporting, and the original textual context cannot be reconstructed exactly, it would be false to assume that these texts offer no valuable information. Before all, they illustrate the influence of the activity of agents on the life of the observed, and tell us a great deal about the workings of power mechanisms and their contradictions. N. I. voiced on several occasions his aversion towards the governing regime, yet his personal existence remained undisturbed, and even his growth in material goods can be demonstrated. His life is thus a perfect illustration of the particular conditions of the period: although he was kept under supervision for thirty years, and was closed off from all professional advancement or leading position, he could exercise his profession unhindered and could even maintain a private clientele. The documents clearly show that anti-communism in private society was of very low intensity, in the light of which it is difficult to understand the great investment of work which was necessitated by the continuous supervision of these people. Their observation seems thus to have followed from the outdated drill of state security which, especially in the consolidated period of the Kádár regime, apparently aimed at demonstrating its own importance by maintaining supervision of marginal importance.
