#Politics #InternationalRelations
I grew up in Hungary before that country tried democracy for a couple of decades. In Eastern Bloc state socialism, we were forced by the state to have celebrations at school every year for when the Soviets *liberated* Hungary, ie drove Nazis out at the end of WWII and rolled their tanks in. *Liberation* day was April 4. Today is April 4. This is so weird.
My first job was for a Hungarian man with one arm, who delightfully recounted the time he once bulls eyed a Molotov right into a Soviet tank's open hatch from seven stories up.
@Pungent
Whoa. I have touched bullet holes in my paternal grandfather 's books from the 1956 uprising. I am guessing that was the year when that Molotov dropped?
Possibly. He said the trick is to hide on the rooftops and wait for the entire line of tanks to enter the city.
Then drop Molotovs on the first tank and the last tank simultaneously, working your way to the middle.
It's amazing what you can learn at a Texaco.