Judit Dénes

They asked to return his diploma, as if it invalidated his qualifications, and they said he was an ideologically misguided person. I can't translate it any other way. It was his crime that he was ideologically misguided. Previously, he belonged to Fidel Castro's circle of advisers. This was in the period when somehow very weak reform attempts were started in the economic field and since he (Carlos, Judit's husband) studied in Hungary - these are assumptions, no one has ever said - and here was a much more relaxed dictatorship? in quotation marks?, that is why they were included in this circle. From where he left very quickly, so he was there for a very short time, between half a year and a year... Because he pushed for some kind of market economy and gave advice in this regard.

They allowed us - I don't know how many more people were there from the authorities - to say goodbye to each other there, in front of this large plenum, being almost in a state of shock, and that's all, it lasted a few minutes. It was a terrible state of nerves. And then it was over, I didn't see him again, they took me home because I had a crying fit, but I was given an injection to calm down. And the torture that lasted for five years began the next day.