Category: Hungary
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Revitalizing Budapest
There is more to Budapest than how the Soviet and Nazi occupations have framed the conversation about Hungarian national identity that I wrote about in my post: Exploring the Nazi and Soviet Occupations of Budapest . Budapest, after all, because of its cheap beer (cheaper than water in some cases) and cheap flights within Europe, is…
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Exploring the Nazi and Soviet Occupations of Budapest
In Poland and in the Czech Republic you can’t escape WW II and the Holocaust, and to a lesser extent, what went on during the Soviet occupation. While the former series of events segued into the latter, the two are thought of as distinct. In Hungary however, the Nazi and Soviet occupations are thought of as…
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At the Edge of the Migrant Crisis in Budapest
Although we plan to look for adventures on our trips, we hadn’t planned to be on the edge of a geopolitical crisis, but then again, few people do. On our way to Budapest from Prague we arrived at the main station to find that there were no trains running to the main train station (Keleti)…