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do this in your whole life? To teach? His father was an
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“appropriate” member of the newspaper staff Szabad Nép and
he himself was destined for the career of a TV reporter. His
later career life was inevitable and fully determined. He became
a big shot in left side media – at least for some time, until he
started to report from Western countries thus he changed his
views to some more liberal hogwash. I answered that I was
trying to remain independent but I felt myself a bit ashamed for
showing so little for a career ambition. But for some reason, I
had the feeling that teaching and forming the thinking of people
is a good thing.
So, I was teaching in the sixties and earned well too,
because the number of those wishing to learn English grew,
although it was not
as popular as
learning German yet.
Russian was
insignificant when it
came to business; it
was a compulsory
subject for twelve
years back in school,
a fact that killed the
desire to learn
languages in many.
Languages were not
learnt by the masses.
But what would have been the point? In spite of that, people
started to be interested in Hungarians after the revolution of
1956. A large number of Hungarians left the country for abroad,
thus families were formed that had to do more and more with
Hungarian relationships.

21 Translates as “Free People”, it was the leading communist daily paper in the socialist
era, later renamed to Népszabadság (“Liberty of the People”) before its eventual closure
in 2016.

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