Hungary's 2006 Uprising Turns My Stomach
Posted on Oct 24, 2006
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Filed under: 1956, Budapest, Magyar Vonatkozású
So, immediately after completing my last post, I went on to do my usual cursory scan of current news, and discovered that my last post was the wrong post. As I was writing, throngs of thickheaded people were in the middle of making a mockery of the 1956 uprising by disrupting the day’s events, chanting inane nationalistic slogans and provoking the police...
Read MoreHungary's 1956 Uprising Turns 50
Posted on Oct 23, 2006
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Filed under: 1956, Budapest, Magyar Vonatkozású
Today, October 23rd is the 50th anniversary of the 1956 uprising. Ordinary citizens took to the streets, temporarily forcing Soviet tanks out of the capital, Budapest. For a two-week period, Hungary was free. Of course, the Soviets returned on November 4th with reinforcements, and that was that. I lived in Budapest in 1989, when the uprising began to be...
Read MoreDubya by the Danube
Posted on Jun 23, 2006
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Filed under: 1956, Budapest, George W. Bush, Magyar Vonatkozású
Hey buddy, siddown, will ya? You’re blocking the view! President Bush’s attempt to draw a parallel between the Hungarian freedom fighters of 1956 and the Iraqis of today struck me as a bit freakish. The 1956 uprising was largely about ejecting the military occupation of an invading foreign power, namely the Soviet Union, who invaded Hungary...
Read MoreHungarian Republic Day
Posted on Oct 23, 2005
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Filed under: 1956, Budapest, Magyar Vonatkozású
On this day in 1956, what began as a small student demonstration snowballed into a national uprising. The students were joined 100,000 angry citizens as they marched to more impromptu demonstrations at various sites around Budapest. At the Parliament building they were met by Soviet tanks who fired on the crowd. The demonstrations then escalated into...
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