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Later on, dictatorships always feared that March 15 commemorations would boil over into another revolution.

I wrote about the film director who was recently exposed to have been an informant in the directors' school - he was 'netted' in the pre-emptive arrests before March 15, 1957.

There was always some trouble in the following years too, the biggest in 1972, when hundreds were beaten and arrested (I just learnt today that my mother took part in an illegal march that day, but not the one police attacked).

Two of the three biggest demonstrations during the changes in Hungary were on March 15 1988 and 1989.

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

by DoDo on Wed Mar 15th, 2006 at 08:41:39 AM EST
I have read that at the start of the 1956 Hungarian uprising the students were drawing inspiration from 1848 and the poem mentioned in this diary.
by Gary J on Wed Mar 15th, 2006 at 09:35:35 PM EST
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Correct. The 1956 revolution grew out of demands by a student movement called Petőfi Circle.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Mar 17th, 2006 at 04:54:47 PM EST
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