[Dénes Bernád]

An aspect probably not discussed in this book is the civilians taken into captivity, mostly by Soviet forces. From present-day Hungary alone, hundreds of thousands of civilians (the number of accounted people by information available in the 1990s was 76843 men, 17945 women and children) ended up in forced labour camps in the USSR, for years, many never returned home. Often, people were grabbed, at random, by Soviet soldiers from railway stations and fields, when prisoner trains were passing through, to complete the number of dead and escapees.