Post #1114374
2026-04-13 02:05 UTC
Within a period of *one month*, I experienced:
- bomb scare at the airport
- Pope's first visit (to a *very* Catholic country)
- Iron Maiden's first visit
- the Russian putsch (Yeltsin on the tanks), which reverberated hard in Hungary
- Unix coming East for the first time ↵
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@shriramk@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 02:06
It was almost as if the country had gone into a deep sleep for decades, and then blinked hard at a very bright light. Of course Hungary had always been the most "Western" of the Eastern bloc, but that was still a pale shadow of what was happening in the West. ↵