The exhibition, entitled Socialist Camp. Epilogue - 1989 Reflected in Archive Documents, offers an overview of Soviet-Hungarian political relations in 1989-1990 as well as changes in other countries in Eastern Europe. Most of the documents are being shown for the first time.
György Gilyán, Hungary's ambassador to Russia said the exhibition shows the end of a system to which the world can never return. "It is now clear, there is no going back. Whatever the future brings, 1989 has taught that no societal experiment can achieve results without political democracy," he said.
Chief of the Federal Archiving Agency Andrei Artizov said the exhibition shows the big role the changes in the Soviet Union, as well as the country's leaders, played in the transformation of Eastern Europe at the time.
Before the exhibition opened, Russian and Hungarian economists, political scientists and historians had a roundtable talk on the effects of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
Among the photographs from the archives of the Hungarian News Agency are ones showing East Germans who fled to Hungary, the Pan-European Picnic and the opening of Hungary's borders on September 10, 1989.
Source: Hungarian News Agency
