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Austria differently in 1955, since their power in world politics
had gone deep; hence the Soviets withdrew their troops from
the occupied Austrian territories eventually. Have no illusions,
they would have done the exact opposite but for the lack of
influence. There were enough dismembered countries around
the world in those days.
Those being told all the time that their history is a bad and loser
one will believe it slowly. Many did a lot to spread this attitude.
They defiled, misunderstood, and looked down on a history and
culture that have belonged to the most magnificent ones in
Europe. That is the reason why I did not become a history
teacher. I decided two things: I will be unwilling to teach the
officially accepted history and I will not enlist into the
communist People’s army. Small oaths, small successes.

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It was proven in the 1950s how significant tradition the country
has in sports. Hungarian sportsmen also achieved a series of
beautiful victories during the 50s: in the Football World Cup
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and the Olympics too. As a matter of fact, Budapest had the
right to organize the upcoming Olympics as early as in 1920 but
lost this right due to WWI, although the country had the funds
at the time, so she could have organized it on her own. The only
way to fund such an event today could be to collaborate with
the countries that were born out of the dismembered Hungarian
Kingdom. Maybe such collaboration would worth it, and maybe
some positive results would born out of it. But unfortunately,
the “divide and rule” kind of animosity is still alive, or at least
its negative perspective. Those satisfied in their national
feelings by having dismembered the Kingdom now serve
loneliness.
The 1950s was a silent decade despite the sports successes. The
silence was deathlike. The victorious powers after 1956 hanged
four hundred people to avenge the war of independence; the

15 Hungary was one of the founding sates of the Modern Olympic games.

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