Un dosar confidențial numit „dosar de cereale de pâine” din arhiva Partidului Socialist al Muncitorilor din Ungaria
A confidential file called a "bread cereal file" from the archives of the Socialist Workers' Party of Hungary

Summary/Abstract: Hungary has been one of the most favored countries in terms of agricultural crops. There were also difficult times regarding the production of cereals and their export during the world wars and, especially, after the installation of Soviet communism in Hungary. From 1948–1949, an integral part of the Sovietization of Central and Eastern Europe was the Stalinist reorganization of agriculture through collectivization. Collectivization, since 1949, has destroyed much of the Hungarian peasantry, as has happened in all states subject to the Soviet regime. At the beginning of the collectivization campaign, only 13% of the country's arable land became agricultural cooperatives, but by the end of March 1961 the percentage had reached 70%. In parallel, the number of members of the agricultural cooperative increased from 169 thousand to 1.2 million. The agricultural policy of the governments of Mátyás Rákosi and János József Kádár was based on ideological arguments aimed at the socialist restructuring of production and rural life in Hungary. The Soviet Union took advantage of the difficult situation, from an agricultural point of view, of its eastern sisters, to sell them cereals, for bread, but also fodder, for animals. The party ideology camouflaged the social and agrarian crisis, with which the Hungarian society struggled.

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