A Soros Alapítvány iratai

The Hungarian Soros Foundation (HSF), founded in May 1984, was George Soros's first pilot enterprise in the one-time communist bloc, years before he opened his similar Beijing, Moscow, and Warsaw offices in the late 1980s or establish his foundation network in the early 1990s throughout Central and Eastern Europe. During its 23 years of public operation, the HSF spent more than 150 million dollars by providing grants, stipends and other means of support for artists, writers, scholars, and students, and it ran several new cultural and educational, social, and health projects and remained the main supporter of NGOs and civil society in Hungary. By breaking many taboos before and after 1990 with its challenging new policies, especially in the cultural field, the HSF was strongly opposed by both the communist and nationalist protagonists of state-controlled culture. Its grantees and supporters saw its main mission as the preservation and nurturing of the spirit and values of ongoing cultural resistance.

成立于1984年5月的匈牙利索罗斯基金会（HSF），作为乔治·索罗斯在共产主义阵营解体之前的首个试点项目，早于他在1980年代末在北京、莫斯科和华沙开设类似办公室，亦或在1990年代初在整个中东欧地区建立基金会网络。在长达23年的公共运营期间，HSF通过提供资助、奖学金及其他支持方式，为艺术家、作家、学者和学生投入超过1.5亿美元，并运营了多项新的文化和教育、社会及健康项目，成为匈牙利非政府组织和公民社会的主要支持者。在1990年前后打破诸多禁忌，以其富有挑战性的新政策，尤其是在文化领域，HSF遭到了受国家文化控制之共产主义者及民族主义者的强烈反对。其资助者和支持者视其核心使命为持续文化抵抗精神和价值的维护与培育。