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BORN: Oct. 31, 1949, Laurel EDUCATION: William Carey College, B.A., 1970 FAMILY: Wife, Rosemary; three children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Funeral director POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1988- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 229, Brookhaven 39601. Tel.: 601-835-1341, 835-2500
Many of Michail's friends recently traveled to Athens for his funeral, which was held last Thursday. Michail's wife has moved back to Greece.
For more than 30 years in Soviet-dominated Hungary, 1956 was a taboo subject--or if discussed at all, it had to be referred to as a "counterrevolution," more often than not preceded by the adjective "fascist." Then, after Communist Party boss Janos Kadar retired in 1988 (by then, the...
All of this became crystallized in the fall of 1993, when Hungarians witnessed another state funeral, this time by the conservative government: the reburial of Hungary's former dictator, Admiral Miklos Horthy, who had died in exile in Portugal after the war. It was under Horthy, an ally of Hitler...
Curious and curiouser. Had the Communist propaganda about 1956 as the work of "fascist counter-revolutionaries" been right, after all? No: Nagy was not a fascist but a reformist communist, as were many of his followers. There is no doubt, however, that some of the 1956 "freedom fighters" were far...