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Hungary Mass Organizations
Until the late 1980s, the law contained no provision
for
voluntary, independent associations of people interested
in
influencing social or political policy. Potential
independent
groups had no concrete channels by which to gain regime
approval.
During four decades of communist rule, clear legal status
belonged only to such mass organizations as the Communist
Youth
League, official trade unions, the National Council of
Hungarian
Women, and a variety of nonpolitical associations catering
to
narrow, special interests of the population. Until the
late
1980s, authorities actively discouraged the formation of
unofficial groups.
Data as of September 1989
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