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title: 'Stage slogan at the MSZMP national conference, Budapest: "A párt vezetésével, [de]mokrácia és a reformok útján a szocializmusért!"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hungary-mszmp-national-conference-slogan-1988/
description: 'Four men talk at a long red-covered table in a conference hall, below a wall slogan in white block letters: ''With the party''s leadership, [de]mocracy and…'
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[![Stage slogan at the MSZMP national conference, Budapest: "A párt vezetésével, \[de\]mokrácia és a reformok útján a szocializmusért!"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hungary-mszmp-national-conference-slogan-1988.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/hungary-mszmp-national-conference-slogan-1988.jpg)

# Stage slogan at the MSZMP national conference, Budapest: "A párt vezetésével, [de]mokrácia és a reformok útján a szocializmusért!"

Four men talk at a long red-covered table in a conference hall, below a wall slogan in white block letters: 'With the party's leadership, [de]mocracy and reform, for socialism!' A red star on a ribbon in red, white and green sweeps across the wall. The slogan strings virtue words (democracy, reform, socialism) and fixes them to the party's leadership; the star set into the national tricolour ribbon pastes the party's emblem onto the national colours.

## Text on the object

Original (Hungarian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
A párt vezetésével,
[de?]krácia és a reformok útján
a szocializmusért!
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
With the party's leadership,
[demo]cracy and [the path of] reforms,
for socialism!
```

Read from an enlarged crop. The first letters of the second line are cut off by the frame; the visible text starts at 'krácia', and the full word is inferred as 'demokrácia'. Literal word order: 'With the party's leadership, democracy and the reforms' road, for socialism!'.

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