The highlight of the exhibition, which opened on March 11, is the original Hungarian-Soviet friendship, cooperation and assistance agreement that was signed on February 18, 1948, as well as its renewed version signed on September 7, 1967.
The twenty-year pact was first of all a promise to send troops in the event of renewed German aggression, but it also aimed to keep Hungary from joining any anti-Soviet alliance. It prescribed consultations between the two countries on all matters of international importance, and it sought to develop economic and cultural ties.
Rádojka Gorjánác, deputy chief of department at Hungary's Ministry of Education and Culture, as well as Andrey Artizov, the director of the Federal Archival Service of Russia, spoke at the opening of the exhibition.
