Perceptive readers may recall that in my introduction of our Hungarian Perspective on September 4, 2023, I did bring up the story of a troubled woman who arrived to Paris to murder Jean-Paul Marat, and before she carried out this awful deed she got caught up with the horrors of Paris in transition. What kind of city is this? – she would repeat the same question in a catatonic manner before she rang the doorbell on Marat’s home. Surely, what kind of city is this? As I have noted in my first post, the question, pertaining to this country, will come up in this Blog a number of times from different aspects.
I must say that I never intended to exclude villages and small towns from the inquiry of what kind they are. If something takes place in rural settings, villages, this also qualifies to the generic question: What kind of city is this? Here we have a telling story which advises you a fair bit of what kind of a country, city and village life we experience in Hungary.
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