The Budapest-based Open Society Archives (OSA) and MTI will jointly publish a vast array of transcripts and recordings to mark the 20th anniversary of the change of political system in 1989.
The material OSA will soon post on its website 60,000 pages of text, including the transcripts of radio monitoring, state security reports, the minutes of meetings, said Istvan Rev, the OSA’s director said on Wednesday.
OSA will also publish online 200 hours of moving images, including news programmes, educational and propaganda films, as well as 300 hours of sound recording of politburo meetings and opposition round table negotiations.
From MTI’s archives, OSA will upload transcripts of the agency’s radio monitoring service, including reports and commentaries by the BBC and Radio Free Europe from 1989.
MTI plans to publish the same content on its website from February.
The idea is to show two opposing sources in a parallel. For instance, the recordings and transcripts of Radio Free Europe and Hungarian state Kossuth Radio’s broadcasts will be compared to MTI’s records of Radio Free Europe broadcasts.
OSA, in co-operation with state archives will also digitalise sound recordings of the politburo meetings, Rev said.
