Description:
Freedom (Szabadság) – Democratic daily journal. Original Hungarian political paper from 1947.
Szabadság (Freedom) was a leftist, communist daily journal. The first issue was published 1945, January 19. After the Soviet occupation at the end of World War II, this magazine was among the first ones with a political content to be published. It was two sheets at the beginning, later the length was doubled. The paper addressed the workers as it belonged to the Hungarian Communist Party. When the Party merged with the Socialist Democratic Party and became the Hungarian Worker's Party Szabadság, along with other daily journals of the party, was terminated. This number has six pages and was published in 1947, September 2 after the infamous blue ballot elections. The paper is an important document of a time full of distortion of reality. The front page says that the two workers parties won the elections with significant advantage. In reality they didn't manage to get the majority of the votes, however, due to weakening the opponents with mostly unfair means they did not have significant opponents left and practically the Communist Party could do whatever they wanted. Most of the articles in this journal are about the elections and some international news.
Size: 32 x 24 cm (when folded in four)
