BUDAPEST REVISITS ITS RECENT HORRORS MUSEUM STIRS DEBATE ON PAST

The Boston Globe | April 6, 2003| | Copyright

BUDAPEST - Few residents would disagree that the capital's newest museum, the House of Terror, is haunted. The museum, in an elegant former apartment building in the heart of the city, was the headquarters of the Hungarian fascist movement during World War II. It was later the nerve center of the dreaded communist political police.

But the ghosts of a turbulent history have not been put to rest. Fourteen years after Eastern Europe shrugged off communism in favor of free elections and free markets, interpreting the past often provokes fierce controversy. Since it opened in February 2002, the ...

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