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I visited Silicon Valley research institutes because my friend
worked there. I saw interesting figures buzzing around the place
- I think with the intention of getting information. When I was
in San Francisco, I felt like I had got far enough from home.
The long distance oppressed me, but I was not tormented by
homesickness. When I started traveling back homeward, I felt
that I could no longer settle in this country. Maybe somewhere
in Europe, if you really have to. But there was no need, because
when I got home, I was greeted by a Hungary that was changing
in full force: the dismantling of the Iron Curtain, free travel,
unleashed hopes, unbounded expectations. The only thing that
bothered me was how the two separate worlds of the European
countries, east and west, that lived next to each other and were
now uniting would deal with that mercilessly large financial and
economic difference. I didn't think that for many it would
quietly look like a lost war.
I continued to teach at the university until 1992, when I left the
university due to the many new regulations that had been
introduced by the new government, the lack of time due to the
increased bureaucracy, and the increased turnover of our
language school and my commitment to our teachers. Just in
time. More and more jobs disappeared, and not only in industry,
but also in education, because of the reorganizations, many
became vulnerable. It turned out that the protection of trade
union interests was a tool of the power machine under
communism, and it did not show strength during the change of
regimes in 1989, it did not stop the processes going in the
wrong direction, the workers got in a disorganized situation
which had been characteristic a hundred years earlier. The
common wealth slowly changed hands in a maze of all
kinds of practices organized by known and unknown
faces. The regime change took place by compromise and
quickly, with the presence of Russian soldiers for a while,
between the representatives of the former power and the
new opposition, which was often naïve and argued with a

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