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Hungarian journalist, author, translator (of Pynchon, among others). Book: Bárányvakság (Ovine Blindness). Classic liberal, desperate about Hungary.
Nov 24, 2020 5 tweets 1 min read
1) Hungary's "Parliament" goes on to pass an amendment (just 2 weeks after the previous one) that would make it virtually impossible for opposition parties have their own national lists in the next elections (2022). 2) They are _forced_ to act as a single party, which is no road to success.
Dec 28, 2018 9 tweets 2 min read
1) Sometime during the darkest hours last night (as planned, but in secret, no witnesses), the monument of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of the Hungarian revolution was removed from a square next to the Budapest Parliament, where it has stood since 1996.
444.hu/2018/12/28/az-… 2) The official explanation says the square shell be reconstructed as it was in 1944, before the German occupation, and the statue will be replaced by the original monument to the victims of the 1919 Red Terror.