COMMUNIST MUSEUM IN KOMLÓ

The Workers’ Party has opened an exhibition in Komló (a town near Pécs, SW Hungary). The exhibition shows the period starting with 1945 and displays the reliques, orders, clothes, and uniforms of the past 40-50 years for the visitors.

The exhibition takes place in the municipal centre of the party. Imre Deák, the municipal chairman of the Workers’ Party said to Magyar Nemzet ’this is an Anti-House of Terror Museum, it shows the positive aspects of that age when workers had their own dignity’. The exhibition can be visited until the end of January and it is largely supported by the local television channel which advertises the exhibition several times a day. Many citizens of Komló have called the attention to the exhibition as they find it shocking that in 2004 they commemorate the period of Communist dictatorship in such a way when tens of thousands were imprisoned and deprived of their property or even their lives. The other municipal parties so far have not protested against the exhibition.