1956 Hungarian Revolution Commemoration
I have been shamefully ignorant toward my home country's matters lately, and in turn several truly interesting events eluded my attention.
Just a few days ago (Oct 23) we (the world even, I would dare to say) celebrated/commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of our insurrection against the Soviet occuppation. However, while all the notables of Europe and beyond were visiting/voicing their solidarity with the Hungarian nation, a distinguished portion of the latter decided to go a bit more active, and, fuelled by a certain, perceived historic duty to "accomplish the revolution of '56" or something no less fuzzy, commenced a tenacious protest in Budapest in order to induce our prime minister to renounce his office. He did not, but, considering the unlawful and generally stupid, racist, idiotic and slightly neo-nazi nature of the above-mentioned crowd, sent in the riot-police instead.
Here is some footage of the event:
This is quite cool, depicting the last fight around 1-2 am:
http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/?vid=okt23_hajnal
The hooligans even managed to hijack a Soviet-type tank from a nearby exhibition; they commandeered it for a brief period, in which they apparently drove it against the police cordon (I didn't find videos on that, though):
http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/?vid=okt23_tank
If you got interested, here is a longer video with a really cool cuti-style guy as an ideological guide to the "new revolution" (unfortunately in Hungarian)
href="http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/?vid=okt23_harc">
Just a few days ago (Oct 23) we (the world even, I would dare to say) celebrated/commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of our insurrection against the Soviet occuppation. However, while all the notables of Europe and beyond were visiting/voicing their solidarity with the Hungarian nation, a distinguished portion of the latter decided to go a bit more active, and, fuelled by a certain, perceived historic duty to "accomplish the revolution of '56" or something no less fuzzy, commenced a tenacious protest in Budapest in order to induce our prime minister to renounce his office. He did not, but, considering the unlawful and generally stupid, racist, idiotic and slightly neo-nazi nature of the above-mentioned crowd, sent in the riot-police instead.
Here is some footage of the event:
This is quite cool, depicting the last fight around 1-2 am:
http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/?vid=okt23_hajnal
The hooligans even managed to hijack a Soviet-type tank from a nearby exhibition; they commandeered it for a brief period, in which they apparently drove it against the police cordon (I didn't find videos on that, though):
http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/?vid=okt23_tank
If you got interested, here is a longer video with a really cool cuti-style guy as an ideological guide to the "new revolution" (unfortunately in Hungarian)
href="http://index.hu/politika/belfold/2006/elkurtuk/videok/?vid=okt23_harc">
posted by Bazmeg at
1:16 AM
4 Comments:
hhahaha I've seen the guys taking over the tank, that was fucking awesome - are you still considering yourself central europeans??? Just imagine our dear MF smuggling a tank :)
P.S The videos remind me of good old childhood times when every second year we didn't have school and went to protest against Milosevic on the streets clashing with police. Damn, I miss the tear gas run!!!!!!!
Yeah, I am afraid that you have a point about my homeland's Balkanization. I don't think our politicians rightly assessed the extent of the lunatic fringe potentially getting excited by their ridiculous Banana Republic antics.
Happy B-day Ed....
/M!
I heard about this from a hungarian student who's here in Tromsø u. She said it got pretty scary, and that this stupid crowd was targetting the jewish community in particular. Is this true?
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