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Budding Budapest |
| Section: THE ARTS / INTERARTS |
| Author: Cynthia Grenier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,212 Words, 13,905 Characters |
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Hungary has had perhaps the most chaotic and violent past of any country in Europe, yet it has managed to produce a singularly rich culture of world renown. Last spring, to the great pride and satisfaction of Hungarians, their country became a full partner in the brotherhood of NATO. "At last," exclaimed many Hungarians. "Now we're really part of the West!" This gratification was all the more heartfelt as Hungary had endured nearly half a century under Soviet domination.
But their gratification was suddenly put to the test when, barely two weeks after the country's entry into NATO, that organization began its massive bombing of Serbia. The first target: Novi Sad, a city just twenty-five miles across the border from Hungary with a large Hungarian minority. (Northern Serbia was once part ...
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...ican authors into Hungarian. And equally appropriate, too, may be the fact that the Hungarians--rather than destroying the monumental statues of Marx, Lenin, and the like erected during the dark socialist years--have moved them all to an open-air theme park, about twenty minutes from the city's center.A park, I must say, that is visited as a curiosity item more by tourists than by Hungarians.
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