1956-os Intézet - Oral History Archívum

A small group of devoted researchers began to do interviews in 1981 with people who had been active in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The aim of people who did the interviews was to reveal, by giving people chances to share personal memories, the real story of this decisive set of events, which were taboo under the Kádár regime, which had violently suppressed the revolution and which was eager to make up for its lack legitimacy in the eyes of the population by spreading false propaganda. These early interviews later served as the core collection of the Oral History Archives, which was founded in Budapest in 1985.

自1981年起，一群热忱的研究者们开始对积极参与1956年匈牙利革命的人员进行访谈。这些访谈者的目标是通过给予受访者分享个人记忆的机会，揭示这一系列具有决定性意义的史实真相。在卡达尔政权下，这些事件被视为禁忌，政权曾对革命实施暴力镇压，并急于通过散布虚假宣传来弥补其在民众眼中缺乏合法性的缺陷。这些早期的访谈后来成为1985年在布达佩斯成立的口述历史档案馆的核心资料集。