The study outlines the practice of ‘history policy’ of the Czech, Polish and Hungarian political right in the past 20 years. This summary is a reaction to the frontal attack on national history by the Hungarian right wing government, which declared the period 1944-1989 as criminal, expelling it from the thousand year long history of Hungary. Although this phenomenon is not typically Hungarian – there were also attempts in the Czech Republic and Poland for biased reinterpretations – the criminalisation of history is uniquely extreme here.

Analysing social developments from a Marxists point of view is traditional in this journal, while this approach is mentioned in other circles mostly with a negative context, if it is mentioned at all. To hear about Marxism inspired art, for instance films, or about analyses and debates about the link between Marxism and films, we have to go back in time or far away, leaving the Continent arriving in the Preston University, US – from where the author reports.

Retrial – with thorough economic analysis. The author is searching the fundament of socialism in radically rejecting relations of production based on wage labour and competitive market relations. From this point of view, any idea on market socialism can only be a dead end, contrary to democratic planning established by the political economy of the labour class. In addition to meeting basic needs, this should also provide healthy environment and promote "the absolute unfolding of man's creative abilities" -"an end-in-itself".

In the Korean War, the US Air Force dropped more bombs on the area of the DPRK than it did in the entire Pacific theatre of World War II. The loss of North Koreans in lives was close to the proportion of Soviet citizens killed in World War II. In the reconstruction followed the war, the DPRK produced incomparable economic growth reaching annual 39% between 1953 and 1960. This was the result of the sacrifice of North Koreans as well as of the generous economic and technological help provided by "friendly" socialist countries – the Soviet Union, China and the GDR.