Historians are questioning the real impact that the proposed new committee on national memory can have. The primary goal behind the new institution is to investigate and document how power was achieved, expanded and exploited during the former Communist regime, and to bring to light those who served as agents for the regime. There’s also a drive to publish lists of names of people who collaborated secretly with the previous regime, as has happened in Romania and in the Czech Republic. Current Hungarian law makes this impossible, however proponents of the new committee and publishing the lists argue that transparency would help the country move on.
