Your version is a truth, David. Sonny used to tell me the first Russians
were told they were fighting the British in Suez but discovered there was a
worker's revolution in Hungary and joined it. They gave them their guns and
joined the uprising and then Krustchev sent in troops brought in from
Siberia with no European languages and lots of tanks. 20,000 dead and
200,000 over the border into Austria. If we hadn't been messing about in
Suez Kruschev would have abandoned Hungary. Sonny was a good man and an
asylum seeker. Arthur.
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From: "Brigid Anthony" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 5:08 PM
Subject: New Sub: A Visit with Sonny in Ward 3.
Moving poem, Arthur.
(My brother worked in Budapest for a number of years, and I remember
talking once to his sales director, who had been a student in 1956. He said
he was there in the square where it all ended, helpless students huddled
together, and the Hungarian security forces raising their guns to shoot
them. He told me the Russian commander ordered his men to aim at the
police, and let it be known they would open fire if a shot was fired. True
or not, I don't know, but he was a Hungarian aristocrat, and had no love
for the Russians. Humanity speaks in surprising ways.)
Best regards,
David
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