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Midnight train from Budapest.(First Person)
FIRST OF JUNE, 1993, 11.30 p.m., platform number 5, the main railway station of Budapest. There is a bit of frisson to the location: the last time I left Budapest by train was in June 1944 and I, with 1680 others, was leaving for destinations unknown, seventy to a cattle truck. We finished up in Belsen. Now the platform is deserted, but the train is in place and a very impressive beast it is, headed by a huge steam locomotive with a large, cast iron Soviet emblem and the letters CCCP standing in Cyrillic alphabet for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. A defunct symbol of a defunct empire. The train, a pride of the Soviet railway system, is supposed to run from ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Midnight train from Budapest.(First Person)