Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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180 VÁC IN THE 20TH CENTURY ly within the field of industry - began to get balanced. Compared to the other socialist countries Hungary was more consumer-centred, hence the political-economic situation was aptly referred to as "goulash-communism". At the beginning of the 1960s the most productive factories in Vác were still those of light industry. Besides the traditionally prominent textile industry a new factory manufacturing a product The quarry of the cement works in Naszály Hill Procession of 1 May in the Main Square in the 1980s adapting to the new demands started to work in 1957, In the former cavalrymen's barracks the Associated Tungsten Lamp and Electricity Ltd started to make pick-up tubes. Due to its investments, the Forte Factory turned from a small firm into a medium sized one. 50% of the photopaper and film produced here were sold abroad, mostly in the KGST (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance or COMECON) countries. In 1962 the Danube Shipyard became part of the Hungarian Ship and Crane Factory of Vác. They manufactured specialised river and lake ships, lifeboats for seafarers and chimneys for Diesel-seafarers. Most of the ships produced here were exported. Besides neighbouring socialist countries their biggest buyers were Procession of 1 May in the Main Square in the 1960s From November 1956 to May 1988 the person of János Kádár, Secretary-general of the Hungarian Communist Party, became so inseparable from the regime that his name was actually a synonym for it. The age of the velvet dictatorship is called Kádár Regime or Kádár era. By the summer of 1957 the reorganization of the communist party and the most important state institutions had been completed. In order to demonstrate party affiliation, one of Procession of 1 May in Konstantin Square in the 1970s the formerly demolished Soviet war memorials, the one having been erected in front of the cathedral was reconstructed. By the summer of 1962 the regime had got consolidated. The financial benefits - payrises, profit-sharing, the repeal of mandatory delivery targets - as well as the fact that people were free to apply for a job anywhere in the country and that some church holidays were declared public holidays worked in the government's favour. The majority of people started putting up with a situation they believed to be unchangeable. Productivity in the economy increased in the first period of the regime and also with the establishment of the new economic mechanism. The rates among the branches of economy - especial
