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his friends’ bloodbath in Hungary resulted in consequences (in
1919) that determine an entire country. In the 1920s,
antisemitism developed in Hungary too but due to different
reasons than e.g. in Germany. Neither Károlyi nor Regent
Horthy, the third regent in Hungarian history, was charismatic
enough to handle emergencies, like for example Ataturk in
Turkey. However, there were huge differences in the division
and governability of the people within the country as well.
During those two free weeks in 1956, the inner forces of
betrayal were rather invisible than they were visible. The
communist leaders of the surrounding countries did not look at
the changes positively either, those changes that went through
and were victorious for two weeks in Hungary.
At the time of the shootouts, my sister’s boyfriend and I glanced
out the rooftop window of our house to check what was going
on on the empty fields behind the house, only to have been shot
at us by a soldier from the bushes. The bullet hit the wall
between our heads. We ran off the attic in panic believing that
the adventure ended there. A bit later, they were shooting at our
house for an hour. The family sat on the floor, behind the
thickest of walls, shaking. It was almost as if they were
shooting inside the house. We opened the door in the evening,
still afraid, when 15-20 soldiers broke into the garden, asking
for the ones on the roof. We were honest and told them
everything, after which we gave them
food and drinks. They accepted and
spent the night in the garden sleeping.
Then they bid farewell in the
morning, adding that everything will
be all right. Well, it was not quite like
that, since we looked on the roof after
they had left and saw that they had
ruined it. We never found out which
side we had given shelter to.
In early November, the newly

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