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From: The Economist (US) | Date: October 21, 2006 | Copyright information

Hands up for freedom

The Hungarian uprising has inspired a new generation of books

ANYONE puzzled by the recent violence in Budapest, the worst since the failed revolution of 1956, should look at the plaque concealed behind a curtain in a building on Republic Square. Once the headquarters of the Communist Party, it now houses the communists' successors, the ruling socialists, who are led by the youthful multi-millionaire and prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsany. The plaque commemorates victims of 1956: not those killed fighting Soviet tanks or hanged after the revolution was ...

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