 Another trial came to the Church with the Communist dictatorship following World War II.After the confiscation of church estates, schools and institutions, the Communist government forced the Reformed Church to sign an agreement with the state on 7 October 1948 that brought all work and personnel of the Church under the control of the state and the Communist Party.The forty years of Communist rule brought a great setback for the Hungarian churches, and only the political changes of the 1990s brought about relief.