''Munkás Újság'' (, 'Workers' Gazette') was a

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weekly newspaper published from

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1920-1938. The first issue was published January 31, 1920, then known as ''Ungvári Munkás'' ('Uzhgorod Worker'). The newspaper was an organ of the

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, becoming an organ of the

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in 1921. Key personalities in the editing of the newspaper were

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and Herman Fejér. Although the newspaper was subject to censorship from time to time, it continued publishing up to October 23, 1938. The newspaper re-appeared for a few months in 1945. On December 5, 1945 it was replaced by ''Kárpáti Igaz Szó'' (the Hungarian edition of ''Zakarpatska Pravda'').

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