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On June 4th, 1920, in Trianon, Hungary signed the peace treaty, due to which it lost 2/3 of its lands and 1/3 of its population. This meant the disintegration of the Kingdom of Hungary, whose strong position was sought-after by the Hungarian political elite in 1867-1920. The author of the article analyses the three stages of this project implementation, including the attempts to create a unified Hungarian nation, modernization of Zalitavia and the struggle to maintain the borders after the end of the World War I. The facts known from numerous studies were confronted with the opinions of the most important critics of the ruling elites of that time, journalists of the periodical "Huszadik Század".

Tematem artykułu są obchody sześćdziesiątych urodzin liderów polskiej i węgierskiej partii komunistycznej – Bolesława Bieruta oraz Mátyása Rákosiego. Uroczystości miały miejsce prawie w tym samym czasie (9 III i 18 IV 1952 r.). Do opracowania tego tematu wykorzystano prasę polską i węgierską. Najważniejszym celem kampanii prasowej, która towarzyszyła obchodom, były: budowa kultu jednostki niepopularnych wśród rodaków liderów, zmuszenie Polaków i Węgrów do uczestnictwa we współzawodnictwie pracy oraz poprawa wizerunku Stalina i Związku Radzieckiego.

The repatriation/re-emigration of Polish people from Hungary after World War II There were many Polish inhabitants in Hungary after the end of the World War II. They were economic emigrants who arrived at the end of the 19th century or refugees who crossed the Polish-Hungarian border in 1939. The goal of Polish representatives in Budapest (diplomats from July 1946) was to organize repatriation/re-emigration which would include both groups. The execution was not easy due to the problems with supplies, lack of money and difficulties to estimate the number of Polish people in Hungary. According to Polish government regime, repatriated people/re-emigrants were to help in rebuilding of the destroyed country, populating it, and developing Recovered Territories, whose status in the first post-war years had not been officially established yet.