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Communities of so-called Informbureau (ibeovci) emigrants were established in the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites after 1948 as part of the Soviet-Yugoslav conflict. In Hungary, it was Lazar Brankov who first took an active role in organizing the emigrant community and led their political activities. The scope of this article covers the short period between October 1948 and June 1949, during which Brankov was the leader of the ibeovci emigrants in Hungary. A careful analysis of the archival sources suggests, rather, that he emigrated of his free will and with the knowledge of the Hungarian and Soviet party leadership. He immediately took an active part in the political activities of the emigrants. At the turn of 1948-49, the emigrants formed only a small community in Hungary. Their everyday lives were based on collectivist morals and supervised by the agents of the Hungarian secret police. Brankov's arrest in June 1949 had a dramatic and destructive effect on the emigrants' lives.
Key words: Soviet-Yugoslav conflict, Lazar Brankov, Informbureau emigrants, Hungarian- Yugoslav relations (1948-49)
Lazar Brankov in jugoslovanski komunisticni izseljenci na Madzarskem (1948-49)
Skupnosti tako imenovanih informbirojevskih izseljencev ( ibeovci) so bile ustanovljene v Sovjetski zvezi in njenih vzhodnoevropskih satelitih od leta 1948 naprej kot del sovjetsko-jugoslovanskega konflikta. Lazar Brankov je prvi na Madzarskem prevzel aktivno vlogo pri organiziranju izseljenske skupnosti in vodil njene politicne dejavnosti. Clanek se nanasa na kratko obdobje med oktobrom 1948 in junijem 1949, ko je bil Brankov vodja ibeovskih izseljencev na Madzarskem. Natancna analiza arhivskih virov kaze, da se je izselil prostovoljno in z védenjem madzarskega in sovjetskega partijskega vodstva. Takoj je prevzel aktivno vlogo pripoliticnih dejavnostih izseljencev. Na prelomu 1948-1949 so izseljenci oblikovali le majhno skupnosti na Madzarskem. Njihova vsakdanja zivljenja so temeljila na kolektivisticni morali, nadzorovali pa so jih agenti madzarske tajne policije. Aretacija Brankova v juniju 1949 je imela dramaticen in razdiralen vpliv nazivljenje izseljencev.
Kljucne besede: sovjetsko-jugoslovanski konflikt, Lazar Brankov, informbirojevski izseljenci, madzarsko-jugoslovanski odnosi (1948-49)
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1. Introduction
Soviet- Yugoslav relations deteriorated in a rapid and dramatic way after the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties (Informbureau) condemned Marshal Josip Broz Tito and the leadership of the Yugoslav Communist Party in its Bucharest resolution of 28 June 1948. As...