More than 700 thousand Hungarian citizens were taken prisoner by the Soviets during World War II. History books remain silent about their fate. The motivation behind this silence is unfortunately consciously bred ignorance.

Ever since 1945, the powers that be have insisted on creating the impression that the Soviets had captured only actively fighting soldiers, whom their captors had magnanimously repatriated even before the peace treaty was signed.

In reality about one third of the prisoners were civilians, and the number of Hungarians sentenced on trumped-up charges and confined to the camps of the GULAG exceeded the figure of several thousand.

The prisoners-of-war and the civilian internees were made to work for years in the labour camps of the Soviet Union. The last major prisoner transports did not arrive back until 1955 (!). It is also a fact that, due to maltreatment and poor living conditions, some 300 thousand Hungarian citizens lost their lives en route, in the reception-, transit- and forced labour camps.