Tag #140489 - Interview #78556 (Gyorgy Preisz)

The change of regime [the communist takeover] came in 1948. I was called a kulak [9] because of my heritage in Gyoma; everything was confiscated, and I couldn’t study anywhere. My wife was told that a head bookkeeper was needed for the Building Workers’ Trade Union. I told them I wasn’t the right man because I was written off as a cadre. They didn’t care; they needed a head bookkeeper. So I became a head bookkeeper. I passed the head bookkeeper’s exam ‘on the sly’ – this was the only way because I would have needed a recommendation from the company – but how to get recommended as a kulak? Then, of course, I was denounced: how can the party support a kulak to be a head bookkeeper? I was fired. And then I got into a company as a bookkeeper.