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Despite its best efforts, you can still see socialist Budapest
Infamous for the misunderstood events of 1956, visit the Hungarian capital today and you will find many proud relics of an era of full employment, free housing, education and leisure, writes JOHN PATEMAN
The Pantheon of the Workers Movement by Zoltan Olcsai-Kiss (1959), can still be found in situ today
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Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
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MAT COWARD introduces some of the electoral oddballs of the political fringe who remain one of the liveliest features of British democracy, despite efforts to abolish them
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
THE socialist period of development in Hungary lasted from April 1945, when the Red Army liberated the country from Nazi occupation, to October 1989 when the People’s Republic was renamed the Republic of Hungary.
Today there are few visible signs of this over 40 years in Hungarian history, which have been systematically rewritten or eliminated. The casual observer would not know that it ever existed. But there are still some remnants that are well worth seeing.
The most obvious place to start is war memorials as these are the least likely to be tampered with or removed. The Soviet Army Memorial at the top end of Szabadsag Place commemorates the liberation of Budapest from the Nazis, with bas reliefs of Red Army troops and tanks advancing on Ferenciek Square and parliament.
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