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Truth & lies.(Letter from Hungary)(political conditions in Hungary)(Travel narrative)
I did not expect that my annual visit to Hungary would coincide with a major political upheaval, which erupted when the prime minister (Ferenc Gyurcsany) confessed to prolonged lying about the state of the country and especially of its economy. It is an additional coincidence that prior to this visit I gave a paper in London at a conference on the fiftieth anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution which focused on the official mendacity as a major source of the rejection of the communist system in Hungary (and elsewhere) and the moral revulsion felt by ordinary people confronting the daily lies in the official media.
I was born in Hungary and left it after the ...
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