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moment, my “inferiority complex”, as it was referred to, gained
a big portion of support.
Nationalizations went on and on, it was even announced
on radio in 1951 how severely were Hungarian capitalists and
aristocrats punished again: the mansion of Klára Drozdy in
Baracska, with all its belongings and lands, was nationalized,
and this mansion with four Corinthian columns, tympanums, at
the entrance and 19 rooms inside and a swimming pool in the
back, was to be used as a culture community centre. It did
happen. The swimming pool became a silo. After that, when the
building, the walkway and the beautiful park surrounding all

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this started going to waste, the whole estate became a TSZ
centre. Eventually, when the whole natural ground became a
victim of desolation, the area became a yard for tractors and
machinery, and the gas and oil seeped into the ground two
meters deep.
Since Klára Drozdy, my mother, survived the era of
communism, she was compensated with a compensational ticket

5 Termelőszövetkezet. „Corporation of Production”, a Collective Farm.

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