[humblegunner]

What an odd title!

[MikeA]

Of course there's no such snobbishness by the Clown Car Media nor denunciations of their hero Hugo Chavez and his Brown Shirt followers in Venezuela. No, they love ole Hugo, the great advocate for the masses and the thorn in W. Bush's side!

[dfwgator]

‘They are not quite like us’ – that is the verdict of many Brussels-based politicians and bureaucrats.

Thank God for that!

[lizol]

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[2banana]

They are not quite like us’ – that is the verdict of many Brussels-based politicians and bureaucrats.

Gawd - I hope not!

[Tailgunner Joe]

Hungary PM pledges to close hated communist-era HQ - 22 Sep 2006 - Hungary's Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said on Friday he would close his Socialist Party's hated communist-era headquarters which was a focus for rioting in anti-government protests this week.

The building in Budapest was headquarters of the Hungarian communist party, from whom the Socialists are descended, and was the scene of fighting in the failed anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In the foyer, covered with a curtain but polished and adorned with a plastic wreath and flowers, is a plaque commemorating the "martyrs" who died defending the building from "the enemies of the Hungarian people" on Oct 30, 1956.

Many of the demonstrators, who launched a week of anti-government protests after a leaked tape in which Gyurcsany said he and the party had lied about the economy to hold on to power in April's election, have shouted "56, 56".

They also carried the Hungarian flag with the hammer and sickle cut out, as flown in the uprising which lasted from Oct 23 until it was crushed by Soviet tanks on Nov 4.

Other communist-era symbols have also been attacked. During an attack on Hungarian state television on Monday night vandals damaged a memorial to Soviet war dead from the 1945 siege of Budapest when the Nazis were driven out.

[Little Bill]

Kind of a 1789 type of attitude in the EU it seems. To judge by the Poles, Hungarians, and Slovaks that I know put 12 of them in a room and you have 18 political parties, maybe more. Gods natural anarchists, in the good sense.

[PoParma]

Thanks lizol. It is a good article. It would be nice to have the hungarian transtlation also, so it could be posted on hungarian web-pages.

I am shure they would find it refreshing. Any suggestions how to post some pictures of the uprising?