"The Way to Victory: Historical Sources Testify" exhibition opened in Budapest

"The Way to Victory: Historical Sources Testify" exposition launched its work in the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Budapest. It marks the end of World War II and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe from Nazism.

The exhibition was prepared in Hungarian by the State Central Museum of Contemporary History. It is the result of the joint work of the Russian Historical Society, the History of Motherland Foundation with the participation of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Russian Military Historical Society, as well as the Russian Embassy and the Rossotrudnichestvo Representative Office in Hungary.

The exposition presents materials from the collections of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, the Foreign Policy Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (some exhibits had been top-secret documents for a long time).

The exhibits provide a complete picture of the development of hostilities, the Red Army losses during the liberation of the countries of Eastern Europe, and spotlights the cooperation with local authorities to establish infrastructure and peaceful life, Soviet humanitarian aid to the local population. A separate section of the exhibition is devoted to little-known facts on the activities of the anti-fascist Hungarian resistance fighters.

A Centre for Remote Access to Information Resources of the Presidential Library has been working at the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Budapest since 2013. Its visitors have the opportunity to learn about the materials of the Presidential Library's electronic collections "Memory of the Great Victory" and "World War II in Archival Documents (collection of digitized archival documents, film and photo materials)". The collections feature official documents, photographs and newsreels, wartime newspapers, books, propaganda publications, collections of articles, biographies, memoirs of soldiers and rare workers, their private documents and much more.

Based on the materials of the website: http://hun.rs.gov.ru/ru.