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When I was 12-14 years old (early 60's), here in Flanders there was a series of booklets about the heroic resistance in 56'Hongary. This where romantisized, catholic inspired and strong anti-communist story's which left a deep impression.
 Of course later on we learned to see all this story's in their real context and to see the difference between real history and propaganda.
But nevertheless, everytime I see "56" and "Hongary" my attention is attrackted, since I still have uneasy feeings about how we in our youth were brainwashed in catholic schools and youth-organisations.
Thanks DoDo four your series, impressive stuff.  

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Tue Nov 14th, 2006 at 05:15:06 AM EST
This where romantisized, catholic inspired and strong anti-communist story's which left a deep impression.

I would find it interesting to learn how they romanticised-catholicised the revolution in Belgium!

Maybe I should announce a seventh diary, which should be 'written' by its readers: a diary asking for accounts of how 1956 came across and what local role did it play in other countries. This is the one theme I don't feel in position to write. (BTW, talos already pitched in with a link on the influence on Italy and Italian communism.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Nov 14th, 2006 at 02:06:41 PM EST
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