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The discussion about the exhibition was organized by the Sofia City Art Gallery with participation of the director of the Gallery, Adelina Fileva; the curator of the exhibition, Krasimir Iliev; journalist Toni Nikolov, editor of the Portal "Culture"; Ekaterina Boncheva, a member of the Committee for Disclosing the Documents and Announcing Affiliation of Bulgarian Citizens to State Security and Intelligence Services of Bulgarian National Army (in brief: Comdos); historian Dr. Momchil Metodiev, professor at Sofia University; literary critic Mihail Nedelchev, professor at the New Bulgarian University; and art critic Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva.

The exhibition was presented as a provocation against the idea of ​​resistance as "shooting with sub-machine gun” (Toni Nikolov), visualizing the great variety of forms of resistance in art. The event drew significant attention by people of all ages. 

The editors and authors of “World in Move” received their secret police files from the Hungarian State Security Archives (ÁBTL) per their official requests submitted after the change of the political system, and in 2016 they displayed some of them for the exhibition of the Ferenczy Museum in Szentendre.
The late revelation of the one-time secret agent reports shocked the Hungarian intellectual circles. The most scandalous case, provoking a passionate public debate on pages of the literary weekly Élet és Irodalom (Life and Literature) in 1999, was that of the late unmasking of an agent with the pseudonym ‘Hajdú.’ He was in fact Sándor Tar, a reputable prose writer, who had been writing secret reports extensively for years on his best friends and colleagues, among them György Berkovits, an editor of “World in Move” responsible for the sociological publications.

The exhibition was organized to coincide with the celebration of 25 years of Croatian independence, when various celebrations marked of the Great Jubilee on 12 September 1976, as well as the 1,040^th anniversary of the royal burial of Queen Helen in the oldest shrine at Our Lady's Isle (October 8, 976).

The exhibition of photographs of the Great Jubilee, the burial of Queen Helena and the concert of the Marian compositions symbolically launched the activities to promote the importance of early Croatian localities, "The Valley of Croatian Kings": Rižinica - remains of the oldest Benedictine monastery in Croatia, Our Lady's Isle with the oldest Marian shrine among the Croats and the mausoleum of Croatian kings and the Hollow Church - the Church of St. Peter and Moses, the coronation basilica of King Dimitar Zvonimir. The exhibition was opened on 7 October 2016.

The exhibition, designed by Ovidiu Taloş, was opened in Braşov on 8 October 2016. The exhibits were structured in two sections. One brought together large-scale reproductions of about 500 photographs, which were exhibited in the open-air in the park of the Faculty of Forestry, a place well-known as a pedestrian area for locals. The second section consisted of copies of around 100 photographs and was put on display at the Romanian Order of Architects–Braşov, Covasna, and Harghita Branch (Ordinul Arhitecţilor din România–Filiala Teritorială Braşov, Covasna, Harghita; OAR–BV–CV–HR), in the city’s old town. The exhibited pictures come from private photograph collections and the archives of several institutions. The reproductions illustrated various topics, such as the evolution of some areas in the old town at the beginning of the twentieth century, school-related activities in Braşov, leisure time in Braşov and its surroundings, and the city’s expansion during the twentieth century. A part of the exhibits depicted daily life under communism, notably school and patriotic work, as well as building of the new districts during the communist regime. The exhibition was organised under the aegis of OAR–BV–CV–HR, it was financed by the Braşov Municipality in partnership with the local newspaper Karpatenrundschau, which also offered numerous official photographs to be displayed.