The years immediatly folowing WW2 had a huge impact on Modern Hungary..even Bence who was born in 1975 has recollections of what it was like to live under the communists and it can be summed up in one word ``AWFUL``. Statue park which is in the suburbs of Budapest, collects many of the more memorable Communist Monuments and I had the privledge of walking through there on Sunday with Bence and heard about his personal recollctions, I´ll never forget this, Thanks Bence! We also watched some secret police training and survalliance films which were mind blowing! Recruitment methods, methods of transmitting information and ways in which to inform onyour neighbors and set up arrests. It would have been hilarious if they wern´t in fact serious.
Yesterday I went to the Teror museum, located in the former offices of the secret police, the cells and gallows are there...right in the middle of the city in the basment of a non-descript apartment building on the main thoroughfare of the city.
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