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|    30 Mar 25 23:06:18    |
      From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz              Memorial Day of the 1848 Revolution (1848–49-es forradalom és       szabadságharc) (15 March, Hungary)              15 March was the start of an insurrection against Austrian rule, which       was finally suppressed the following year with the help of the Russians.       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848              Did we do this one before? Doesn't matter, I just happened on this:              "As a Hungarian, I certainly had no reason whatever to fall in love with       Russia, whom I saw in the prime of my life as the oppressor of the       national aspirations to libery and independence of my own country. The       Russian campaign in Hungary in 1849 is engraved with indelible       characters in the heart of every Magyar; and although the late Emperor       Nicholas bitterly repented his brothersly service rendered to Austria,       and notwithstanding that every Russian soldier has since torn from his       breast the medal bearing the inscription "Vengria (Hungary) 1849," we       Hungarians still couple the name of "Muscovite" with wilful tyranny and       with all the horrors of despotism and barbarism."       - Arminius Vámbéry, Travels and Adventures (1883)              Then, on the next page, he uses the word "autopsy" in a sense recently       discussed here (on a.u.e.?):              "Now on this question [faults and virtues of the English]...I beg to       have my own opinion, an opinion based upon autopsy and formed during       many years of personal contact, while visiting more than thirty       different towns of the United Kingdom."              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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