Area Handbook for Hungary, Volume 550, Issue 165U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 339 pages General study of Hungary - covers historical and geographical aspects, demographic aspects and social structures, living conditions, religion, education, cultural factors, the political system, political behaviour and attitudes, international relations, communication, the economic structure, economic planning, income, agriculture, industry, financial aspects, trade, defence, the armed forces, etc. Bibliography pp. 313 to 328, maps and statistical tables. |
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Page 185 - Council and the World Federation of Trade Unions and the World Federation of Democratic Youth were established in the 1940's and 1950's.
Page 128 - The armed forces of the great Soviet Union liberated our country from the yoke of the German fascists, crushed the power of the great landowners and capitalists who were ever hostile to the people, and opened the road of democratic progress to our working people.
Page 174 - Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union agreed to provide mutual assistance.
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