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The EU and US Must Act Together in Europe’s Neighbourhood
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25 December 2019
Hungarians avoid discussing what “goulash communism” was. Meanwhile, the future of Hungarian democracy depends also on the answer to the question whether it is worth giving up freedom in the name of relative prosperity.
In Hungary, the year 1989 is not an obvious turning point. Yes, there was a historic breakthrough – inspired by the events in Poland, the authorities and the opposition agreed during the talks at the local round table to change the political system and conduct free elections. The symbolic separation from the past was then the solemn funeral – and posthumous rehabilitation – of Imre Nagy, prime minister of the 1956 revolutionary government, executed, buried anonymously, and cursed into oblivion by the communist authorities.
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Andrzej Sadecki is a Researcher part of the FATIGUE programme at UCL. He works on the politics of memory in the Hungarian context with the focus on the commemoration of the treaty of Trianon
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