Freedom Popcorn in Budapest
by: Scott L. Lunt Budapest, Hungary Oct 2, 2006 – Lying politicians, economic struggles, frustrated citizens, tents, bread lines, riot gear, burned out police cars, and… a popcorn stand? Wait a second,...
View ArticleGallery: Budapest Protest
Budapest, Hungary. Lies of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsani are leaked to the public, spawning riots in the streets in September, 2006. These photos are of the following protests in Parliament Square,...
View ArticleBudapest Protests October 23 afternoon
</p> This morning we tried to go to parliament but got pushed back to our school by hundreds of riot cops. (Photos by Scott...
View ArticleBudapest Oct 23, riots. Things get ugly.
</p> Things get ugly. Water canons, rubber bullets. Two injuries that I saw myself. At one point, a tank which was on display was started by the...
View ArticleHungarian Revolution – Part 1 – Oct 22
[youtube width="480" height="360"]k5yX9ZqwanM[/youtube] Exactly 50 years later. The static in Budapest started at the Technical University on the Buda side of the Danube.
View ArticleBudapest Riots-Oct 23, 2006-Rev. part 2
[youtube width="480" height="360"]Zg4QecC-QtQ[/youtube] Exactly 50 years later, things get ugly on the streets of Budapest. Tear gas, rubber bullets, running, water cannons–everything you’d expect from...
View ArticleHungarian Revolution-Oct24-Radio Station
[youtube width="480" height="360"]JZNMMlI2H0c[/youtube] The radio station in Pest was the scene of the first violence in 1956 Budapest. I’m on the scene, 50 years later, although I’m not able to get...
View ArticleHungarian Rev. – Oct25 –“Bloody Thursday”
[youtube width="480" height="360"]BsxBfId3csI[/youtube] On Oct 25th, 1956 the gathering in parliament turned into a bloody conflict with more than 50 people killed.
View ArticleHome in Budapest
Back in Budapest and it feels like home. When you’re comfortable hearing a cab driver talk in Hungarian you know you’ve come a long way. Of course, I still can’t understand the cab driver, but that’s...
View ArticleRiots, rubber bullets and miracles in Budapest
by: Scott L. Lunt Budapest, Hungary (published in: The Daily Universe, Oct, 27, 2006, Provo, UT, USA) You know you’re in a strange place when you can smell tear gas from your front porch. Yet, in...
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