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We need this Memorial Day, The Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism, because we need to declare the truth. Every year, over and over again, we need to declare what a tragedy the communist dictatorship meant for our country, what human dramas took place during its inhuman rule. This is what we must teach our descendants, this is what we must commemorate every 25 February. These were the words of Mária Schmidt, Széchenyi Prize-winning historian and Director General of the House of Terror Museum, at a commemoration ceremony on the Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism. Deputy Minister Bence Rétvári, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, pointed out that most of the victims of communism were those in whose name the communists exercised their power.

The Institute for the Research of Communism submitted entries in the non-profit and education categories for Hungary's largest digital marketing communications competition. The Institute's completely renewed website won a quality award in the non-profit category and a special prize in the education category.

Kyudok Hong, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Budapest, delivered a presentation entitled "Relentless Revolution" at the latest event of the Institute for the Research of Communism. According to the former South Korean Deputy Defence Minister, Hungary and Hungarians set an example for Seoul in the fight against the communist dictatorship. The professor emeritus argued that North Korea must stop its missile tests without delay; an immediate ceasefire is essential in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in which communist Korea is supporting Moscow with arms. The ambassador considers the House of Terror Museum a bastion for freedom fighters.

Kyudok Hong, the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in Budapest, delivered a presentation entitled "Relentless Revolution" at the latest event of the Institute for the Research of Communism. According to the former South Korean Deputy Defence Minister, Hungary and Hungarians set an example for Seoul in the fight against the communist dictatorship. The professor emeritus argued that North Korea must stop its missile tests without delay; an immediate ceasefire is essential in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, in which communist Korea is supporting Moscow with arms. The ambassador considers the House of Terror Museum a bastion for freedom fighters.

On the 100th anniversary of Lenin's death, the Nézőpont Institute and the Institute for the Research of Communism jointly conducted a public opinion poll on the communist leader and communism. This revealed that the majority of Hungarians (52 percent) consider Lenin to be responsible for mass murders, and three quarters (76 percent) disagree with the erection in Western Europe of statues of communist dictators.

The Yugoslav media closely followed the events in Hungary in October and November 1956 - an article by Tomaž Ivešić, Director of the Study Centre for National Reconciliation, originally published in Hungarian on Látószög blog.

Visitors may meet – among others – deaf, blind and mute Lenins, bow-tied and hat-wearing Stalins with their noses swollen from lying at the House of Terror Museum's temporary exhibition "It takes a great idea to commit a great crime!", featuring artworks by Hungarian-American artist Sam Havadtoy (Sámuel Havadtőy), accessible from Thursday.

On the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarian Dictatorships, Mária Schmidt, Director-General of the House of Terror Museum, said that those who today erect statues to Marx and Lenin want to make themselves the victors and us the losers. By this trick they want to deprive us of our triumph over communism – “We, who defeated them in 1989, who threw them, with their regime, onto the ash heap of history “.

On Thursday the Director of the Institute for the Research of Communism told Hungarian press agency MTI that the opening of the House of Terror Museum was a historic milestone. He said that this is because, just over a decade after the fall of communism, Hungary was the first country to create a museum and memorial site that juxtaposed the two totalitarian dictatorships “imposed on us” by the powers which occupied Hungary between 1944 and 1989.

A book about the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated sixty years ago, has been published by the Foundation for Research on Central and Eastern European History and Society. Entitled “The (End of the) American Dream – John F. Kennedy”, the book, written by historian Rajmund Fekete, Director of the Institute for the Research of Communism and research fellow at the Institute for American Studies at the National University of Public Service (NUPS), was launched at the House of Terror Museum on Wednesday.

On Tuesday the Director of the Institute for the Research of Communism told Hungarian news agency MTI that Hungary’s last prince primate József Mindszenty and brave heroes like him overthrew the rule of the communists while declaring that they were not afraid of it.

On 1 March Rajmund Fekete became the new director of the Institute for the Research of Communism.