1956
(Thanks to the excellent blog Publius Pundit for the use of this picture.)
And thanks, most deeply, to the Hungarian patriot Szemszo Tomas, an elderly Jewish gentleman who befriended me during my time in Budapest in 1996 —and who told me of his memories as a young man protesting in the streets of his beautiful hometown against the wretched Soviets. The memory of our afternoon together, old friend, means more to me than I ever had the courage to tell you.
