location: Hungary
The Parliament of Hungary declared 25 February to be the annual Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism. On this day in 1947 occupying Soviet authorities unlawfully arrested Béla Kovács, general secretary of the Independent Smallholders’ Party, who was later deported to the USSR. Kovács spent eight years in prison and labour camps and died in 1959. He symbolizes fate of thousands of victims of communism.