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When some 200,000 Budapest students and workers marched to the parliament building on Kossuth Square on Oct. 23, they had no thought of overthrowing the Communist regime. They wanted mainly to petition the leadership for various reforms, including the return to power of a moderate Communist leader, Imre Nagy. Party Secretary Erno Gero scornfully rejected their pleas and called them "enemies of the people." The demonstrators then paraded to the main broadcasting station to put their case on the air. Security police opened fire, but Hungarian army reinforcements balked...
Many soldiers joined the students or handed over their weapons. Two Soviet mechanized divisions stationed outside Budapest rumbled into the city and were met by sniper fire and Molotov cocktails. The unimaginable was happening: for the first time in history, a Soviet satellite state was succeeding in open, armed revolt...
...feminist?" "inquired Dr. Mihaly Hoppal, a professor of sociology at the Budapest Academy of Arts and Sciences. "Please, that is terrible. You will be miserable. A woman naturally belongs in the house with her children. History has shown us that that is her proper role...
...recent political liberation has given Hungarians the freedom to talk about the economy, the environment, surging nationalism and the gypsy problem. No one, however, wants to speak about women's issues--not about the increasing prevalence of rape in Budapest, nor the scarcity of birth control and the astronomical abortion rate, nor the pornography that fills every newsstand so that it is impossible to buy a newspaper without viewing women's naked breasts and spread legs...
Maria Ginzburg '92 spent last semester studying in Budapest...