budapest's castle district
is undergoing major building work soon
hungary's ministries are to be relocated
to the palaces built according to
historical models
prime minister orban wants castle
district to become hungary's new power
center
he's already moved his official
residence here
the district mayor martin azale is
appalled
the opposition politician is forced to
look on as the government
expropriates
1944 including architecturally
this was an arbitrary dictatorial
decision by the government that runs
counter to society's interests
many share her concerns residents like
tamash wagner
hardly recognize the city anymore
hello mayor what brings you here i
wanted to see the new buildings around
the castle
i fear there's nothing we can do to stop
this tamash wagner has lived here for 26
years
he's worried that he and his neighbours
will soon no longer be able to live in
the castle district
tamash says the government's plans come
at a high cost to hungary
in more ways than one
first they said it would cost 75 million
now they've spent 155 million
hungary's parliament building is located
on the other side of the danube river
today kossut square looks exactly the
same as it did in march
1944. replete once again with
statues and monuments from the era of
miklos horti
who served as regent through most of
world war ii
urban's government even reinstalled the
monument of national martyrs
which was removed after world war ii
historian christian ungvari reviews
archive material of its original
unveiling and footage from 2019
when the reconstructed monument was
inaugurated to fury rhetoric by
parliamentary speaker
lazlo cover
we are branded anti-european xenophobic
islamophobic
and homophobic just for cherishing our
traditions
hungary can only win this fight if her
enemies understand
that their foreign money godlessness and
treasonous ways
will never rule hungry again
they are equating the current political
opposition to a band of terrorists
and traitors
that's puzzling because such parties are
governing all over europe today
why should hungary be a member of the
european union if its government
advocates values at odds
with the ones the union represents
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that the historian cannot understand
auburn's nostalgia for the 1940s
he says miklos hottie oversaw a dark
chapter in the country's history
hundreds of thousands were deported from
hungary and sent
to their deaths 1944 was a bad year
tamashimati agrees he meets with his
neighbor janos marti
i heard you're moving why these days
you just don't know what's going to
happen the country is being fleeced
you know my wife is jewish if back then
the jews had known why they were
boarding trains
they would have refused my wife does not
want to see anything like that happen
ever again janoshmarti has decided to
leave budapest
and possibly hungary altogether just
like
hundreds of thousands of hungarian
citizens who could no longer bear to
watch their country's political
transformation
in recent years
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