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Socialist cultural politics even wanted to make its last trails
disappear, they forbade photographs of it to be published in
architectural written secondary sources, as if it never had
existed (quoted and translated from Wikipedia).

We, the children spent summertime at Kenese, in such a
primal wilderness, lacking hygiene as it is known today, but we
were free, and swam a lot in the lake. My understanding was
different from that of my parents, since I could not relate, nor
had any knowledge of comparison, but the many stories told by
adults and those that we were to hear at school, with all those
Soviet flags around, did not please me. Already as a child, I
could see that things were going in a bad direction, and I
decided to free the country one day and become a celebrity. I
dreamed of building a fortress on the empty building site at the
corner of Szugló and Százszorszép utca/Streets, so strong that
the Soviet Power would fall against its might.
Not being familiar with Ferenc Molnár’s world famous
novel: The Paul Street Boys by then yet, we roamed the streets
in groups, playing in the desolated Újvidék Square. We built a
snow castle in the middle of the square in winter, and the band
from Thököly Street tried to occupy it several times. We found

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