Merk Zsuzsa - Bálint Attila: Baja is town for 300 years - A Bajai Türr István Múzeum kiadványai 27. (Baja, 1999)

The end of World War II found Hungary in a disastrous economic condition. Inflation sky-rocketed; as a counter-measure, a new currency, the forint was introduced in 1946. (Up to now, the highest ever denomination in history has been the "one billion trillion pengő" bank note.) Baja's bridge, destroyed during the war, was reconstructed and opened up again in 1947.

During the 1956 revolution, Baja joined the entire nation, fighting heroically for democracy. The revolution was drenched in blood. The freedom fighters displaced the symbols of Soviet rule, and at the end of October, 1956, Baja was the first among all the cities of Hungary to erect a memorial in praise of the revolution.

From the end of World War II, Baja became a county seat again. However, Hungary's new administrative map showed Kecskemét as the seat of Bács-Kiskun county, which was created in 1950, and not Baja. Hungary's largest county incorporated two different worlds: the Plain between the rivers Tisza and Danube in the East, and Northern Bácska, which was, to a certain extent, more urbanized. In terms of its ethnicity, traditions, and cultural heritage, the county is still bipolar. One of its poles is Baja. Baja, a transitory settlement between the cities of Transdanubia and those of the Great Hungarian Plain, has a special Bácska air that makes it unique in the entire country.

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