“Practically, it was a military interment”

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László Mikecz was born in 1931. In the years following the Second World War, he was already a young man when his family background, which had been respected up until then, became a disgrace. His father was a high-ranked military officer during the Second World War, fighting against the Soviet, so his son was also registered as an unreliable element: instead of military service, he was enrolled to do labor service in the 1950s. Here he learned the trade of electrician, which later helped him get a job. After 1956, working in a regular, “civilian” job, he was able to slowly build a career, but even then his past as a “class enemy” haunted him again and again.