"There will be no Pócspetri from Sopron!"

Abstract

Our documentary tells the story of the protest in Sopron on June 7, 1948, against the nationalization of the schools, organized by the local Catholic student associations and the women’s associations of the Religious Catholic Parents. The 1500 demonstrators were peaceful, but the police officers and the firefighters dissolved the protest with water cannons and alarm shootings. The author utilized the documents of four archives, one record office of a religious order, contemporary articles, memories, and literature to show the protest’s antecedents, circumstances, and consequences. The central hypothesis is that the politically motivated interpretation of the Sopron protest, similar to Pócspetri, is false, proving the propaganda’s goals. Eight people were interned, eight people arrested, and three people imprisoned as a sad result of this demonstration.