“After 36 years, we are finally fulfilling what was once one of the main promises of the change of regime in 1990. A promise that was then denied,” says Prime Minister Péter Magyar.
On Wednesday morning, a database containing more than 50,000 names appeared online.
Repeated decisions to postpone its release have been interpreted by critics as attempts to hide politically sensitive names. There has been speculation that former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is included, but his name has not appeared.
The communist regime in Hungary from 1949 to 1989 suppressed dissent through extensive surveillance. However, the surviving archives identify only about a third of all the informants the ÁVH secret police are believed to have had.
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