The opening exhibition at the Hungarian Institute & Museum of Military History is not an ordinary military showing. It intends to show war from the point of view of soldiers, as they saw the horror of wars from behind wire fences and the depth of trenches.

By the end of the 1940's, power was in the hand of the communist by the Russians overseeing them. Hungary became the vassal of the Soviet Union with all the political, economic and military consequences. The following forty years behind the Iron Curtain was the era of National Socialism, the darkest episode coming in the first part of the 1950's with Mátyás Rákosi as the head of the country.