sourceFifty years ago Hungarians ripped the Communist hammer and sickle from their nation's flag as they rose against Soviet rule. Today in Budapest those flags fly again in ceremonies to honour the fallen of those 10 days of heady freedom that briefly blew through the iron curtain.
But most of them are being flown by the opposition, which has now been protesting for weeks against the Socialist-led government, angry at the prime minister's admission the party systematically lied during their successful re-election campaign.
Instead of a potent symbol of Hungary's desire to be independent the flags are mocking the Socialist's management of what should have been a day of national pride and unity. Instead many think the Socialists, inheritors of the defunct Communists, should not be at the commemoration at all.
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