Monument to Hungarians deported to Soviet labour camps inaugurated – PHOTOS

A monument honouring the memory of Hungarians deported to forced labour camps in the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the second world war was inaugurated in Vallaj, in the east of the country, on Saturday.

Miklós Soltész, the state secretary for church and ethnic minority relations, said close to 500 people had ben deported from Vallaj and neighbouring Merk 80 years earlier. He added that they had been among 5,000 Sathmar Swabians deported because they spoke German or had German roots.

Across Hungary, around 300,000 were deported to forced labour camps in the Soviet Union at the time.

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