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The paper opens by raising the question whether political power scandal is possible in a state-socialist political regime (a question that pertinent political science literature appears to have closed by saying a resolute "No"). Then a narrative and analysis is presented of the history of the so-called MEGEV-affair, a scandal that played a major role in bringing down Hungary's reform-communist leaders in 1973-74. In the concluding, third phase of the paper, the author compares the 1953-1958 and the 1968-1975 conflicts (and their resolutions and closure) between the conservative (stalinist) and reform-communist apparatschik networks within the Hungarian communist party, and suggests that a profound change had taken place in the political style prevalent in intra-party politics, making it impossible for the conservative network to achieve a conclusive and irreversible victory over the reform-communists.
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