Re:Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former a...
by haunter on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:29PM
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The title of the article is "up to 60,000 former agents revealed"
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Re:Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former a...
by zsoltkacsandi on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:31PM
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Yes, and the first sentence used the word “informants”. See my comment above.
Re:Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former a...
by d1sxeyes on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:43AM
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It’s a mistranslation of the Hungarian ügynök, which can indeed mean agent, but not necessarily. Here it means informant/source.
I appreciate the title is wrong, but no reason not to add the correct context.