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Visitors who refer to Hungary as a Balkan
country risk getting a lecture on how this small,
landlocked nation of just over ten million
people differs from "all those Slavs".
Hungary was likened by the poet Ady to a "river
ferry, continually travelling between East and
West, with always the sensation of not going
anywhere but of being on the way back from the
other bank"; and its people identify
strongly with the West while at the same time
displaying a fierce pride in themselves as
Magyars - a race that transplanted itself from
Central Asia into the heart of Europe.
Any contradiction between nationalism and
cosmopolitanism is resolved by what the Scottish
expatriate Charlie Coutts called the Hungarian
"genius for not taking things to their
logical conclusion". Having embarked on
reforming state socialism long before Gorbachev,
Hungary made the transition to multi-party
democracy without a shot being fired, while the
removal of the iron curtain along its border set
in motion the events leading to the fall of the
Berlin Wall. The end of Communism has hastened
the spread of glossy western capitalism, and on
arrival in Budapest your first impressions will
be of a fast-developing and prosperous nation.
However, there is another side to post-Communist
Hungary, and beyond the capital and Lake Balaton
living standards have fallen sharply amongst
many people, for whom the transition to
democracy has brought very mixed blessings
indeed
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