Juli-files
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Juli-files are secret files in the archive in Hungary (like Budapest) that keep track of a huge bribing - around 1989-1990 when 15 000 apartments were given out to the political or cultural elite - in order to have them as allies for the future when communism would be a past... Today MSZP and pres. Ferenc Gyurcsány is trying hard to destroy these files. This is a very delicate matter today - brought up by Magyar Hírlap...
In around 1989-90 when the "changes" took place (see: Revolutions of 1989) and Hungary changed for capitalism and democracy from socialism, and dictatorship 15 000 (fifteen thousand) people got the chance to buy former state-owned apartments - at zero or very-very reduced "discount" prices. The new owners were famous people or from political or cultural elite - as they say in Hungary - the "top 10 000" - which was now 15 000.
This act is not only about giving out gifts to nice people. It's rather about giving them a share - so that they would be loyal in the future to whoever gave them this gift. Also it's about creating a way to blackmail people who got these very expensive properties.
At the secret file archive there's a department called the 'Juli-document department" where among others they keep the list of these transactions of all the 15 000 apartments (consider the fact that these people are not anybodies - but famous people so 15 000 is a very large number). When ex-communist Gyula Horn (actually Gyula is the Hungarian name for Julius - but it's a coincidence only) was president (1994-1998) he gave this department of documents to a private company called: "Tabula Julianus LTD" . This company belongs to the company-empire of Antal Apro (big fish in communism, father in law of Ferenc Gyurcsány) and does document archiving, guarding and shredding. Those 15 000 apartments used to belong to political police - so anybody who got one of those could be compromised or blackmailed any time later.
Socialist government is busy working on destroying these documents - they are trying to privatize the archive so that the private company could have the rights to destroy them all. This is a very-very delicate matter - only Magyar Hírlap wrote about it so far.
all the two articles in Hugarianpress about Juli-files
the article that has brought up "Juli-files" appared in Magyar Hírlap
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