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Budapest Embankments to Receive New Names Unpronounceable to Most Hungarians
The Budapest Assembly has announced plans to rename the lower embankments along the Danube River after individuals who helped save lives during the Arrow Cross's reign of terror in 1944, origo.hu reports. Some of the new names will be Slachta Margit rakpart, Angelo Rotta rakpart, Sztehlo Gábor rakpart, Friedrich Born rakpart and Jane Haning rakpart, among others. (Click here for a satellite map of the embankments and their proposed new names.)
The idea to rename the embankments was proposed in 2005 by a foundation named after former Swiss Vice-Consul Carl Lutz. All five parties with factions in the city council agreed to the proposal, but a final decision will be delayed until after the April elections. No mention was made as to any plans about renaming Moszkva tér, although given its current state, it perhaps exists as a more fitting tribute to Hungary's former Soviet masters than anyone ever could have imagined.
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COMMENT!Why should the name of a square named after one of the main capitals in the world renamed? There are also Moscow Place and Moscow Road in one of the better areas in London and Rue de Moscou in the center of Paris, should these be changed?
Depends when it was named Moskva. I am too lazy to find a map from before the war, so I don't know.
Between the two World Wars it was called Széll Kálmán tér. The name was changed in 1951. It was debated whether to change the name after '89. It was decided back then not to change the name.
my point was simpy that Moscow as such has nothing to do with communism (70 years out of 1000), after all, russians (including lot of moscovites) have suffered more from communism than anybody else. of course lot of people instinctively do think Soviet Union and communist oppression (especially those who come from countries where european history is less understood anyhow) when thinking about moscow (as i believe the writer most likely did).
It is even more remarkable that Paris has Place de Stalingrad (also metro station) that is directly linked to Red army and battle against hitler and that was named definitely after WWII...
By the 1920's streets were usually named after Freemasons which changed to commies by about 1949 with only a few masons thrown in until 1989 when we returned to the noble tradition of naming our streets after masons and erecting statues for our enemies. Sztehlo though is… how should I say… unprecedented. He was a 1930's/40's version of Iványi Gábor ( 'Methodist minister' and totally shameless cheerleader http://tr.im/Ow1y of the Gaza, Jenin and Lebanon massacres http://tr.im/Ow8s )
Sztehlo's life was first propagandized by Béla Balázs in Valahol Európában http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039949 Balázs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Bal%C3%A1zs born Herbert Bauer was the ex-lover and patron of Leni Riefenstahl
of Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcFuHGHfYwE fame was by 1947 when this syrupy piece of shit was made a top commissar of Rákosi' propaganda apparatus. "individuals who helped save lives during the Arrow Cross's reign of terror?" How touching. And who saved lives during the *Soviet reign terror?* (administered by you know whom) Or did the commies have no victims? Or do *their* victims just not matter? Like Palestinians or Lebanese don't matter.
