Two posts in English from a blog called Northern Irish Magyar [Henrik’s note Magyar=Hungarian in Hungarian].

The first story is titled “The real tragedy of 1956” and captures a rarely empathized perspective of the 1956 revolution.
Paul writes: “The greatest tragedy of 1956 is that Hungary lost a complete generation of its brightest and most spirited young people when a quarter of a million escaped after the Uprising to countries such as US, Britain, Sweden, Austria and West Germany. It’s maybe a harsh thing to say, but the country is still suffering from the fact that the youngsters who were left behind tended to be either the apolitical mediocre or Communist lackeys.”

The second is about BBC’s action to turn off some of its foreign language editions. Unfortunately the Hungarian edition is among these. Paul commets:
“When we went travelling, my shortwave radio followed. We used to pretend to bewildered backpackers, that the goobledy gook spouting out from the radio was actually Uzbek, that we were political dissidents on the run and no, we wouldn’t mind if they bought us poor refugees a beer. In Israel, the better half was delighted to meet an old Hungarian shopkeeper, who not surprisingly had decided to leave his mother country immediately after the Second World War. The next day they were sitting together, listening to a folk music performance from Erdely. I’m a pretty cynical sod, but even I was moved to see his tearful reaction.”

(The referenced blog is in English)

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