Petőfi-mirages #4: Revolutionary Youth Days (FIN

PETŐFI-MIRAGES. Program series at the Blinken OSA Archivum, April 12, 2023.

Revolutionary Youth Days (FIN) – The Ideological Emptiness of the Kádár Era. Discussion and film screening.

The Revolutionary Youth Days, first organized by the KISZ (Communist Youth League) in 1967, aimed at the youth, trying to link the memory of March 15, 1848, March 21, 1919 (the establishment of the Hungarian Soviet Republic), and April 4, 1945 (the day of fictitious liberation by the Soviets) in a historical chain, in a fake revolutionary ritual. The main aim, of course, was to merge the memory of March 15 with two emblematic events of the Kádár regime’s myth of origin. During the discussion, we will screen a documentary film about FIN, made in 1974 by filmmaker Péter Gárdos.

Participants in the discussion: Péter Apor and Orsolya Sudár, historians

Moderated by András Mink

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