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“This will be a belated, difficult and sensitive topic in many families, but there is no regime change without it,” Magyar said.
The website nyitottaktak.hu is expected to launch that day, allowing users to access and download documents from Hungary’s former state security services, commonly known as agent files.
Parliament approved legislation providing wider and simpler public access to the records in September, with 149 votes in favor, none against and 35 abstentions.
The legislation allows people placed under surveillance to learn the identities of the agents and full-time state security employees who handled their cases.
The release coincides with Hungary’s national day of mourning on November 4, marking the Soviet military suppression of the 1956 revolution. The date was formally designated a national day of mourning in 2013.
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