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... was bombed to rubble, the Zwack brothers had to rebuild their factory, just like after the first one. Three years after the end of the war, in 1948, the Communist Hungarian government took the factory and the family's house. The brothers had to flee but only Janos Could emigrate successfully. In the first years of the communist era, government continued to produce Unicum without knowing the original recipe and having any sort of agreement with the owners of the Zwack name. Later Janos Zwack sued the Hungarian government for this act and won. Peter Zwack joined the family business in 1972. By that time he lived in the U.S.A. with his wife and daughter. With the change of political system in Hungary, he was invited to buy back the old family factory. He signed a joint venture with the Hungarian monopoly, Buliv in 1989 where Peter Zwack und Consorten ...
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