[Milsurplus] OT re: Images Past-Present

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Last week, I watched a 3-part movie entitled "The Company".  Part 2 covers 
the Hungarian Revolt.  On DVD from Netflix.

Robert D.

In a message dated 08/21/2012 06:34:22 AM Central Daylight Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> >Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:54:13 -0400
> >From: "Mike Feher" <n4fs at eozinc.com>
> >Truly amazing how little change there really is. I just wonder how much
> >change I would notice (from what I remember as a 11 year old in 1956), if 
> I
> >were now to go back to the city where I lived in Hungary. Regards - Mike
> 
> Mike, I am a bit younger. I am taking a guess at when you left. But this
> reminded me: in that year I, sister, brother  and mother were living with
> aunt and uncle in Mannheim Germany, in a three room apartment with cold
> water and a stove in the kitchen for heat. ( Taking weekly baths was a big
> project. )  They had been pretty lucky, only the windows had been blown
> out from the bombing, whereas the building across the street was now
> only a crater, only some shrapnel had come in their windows,  and their
> only child, a son , had returned from the U-boat service in one
> piece, and had a good job in construction.  One day my relatives were 
> excited
> and  hurrying about, they said there was a collection of  blankets for the
> refugees from the Hungarian rebellion. I looked out their window and down
> in the street was a truck, a large open backed truck, and people were 
> coming
> out into the street and handing bundles up to men in the truck. I was kind 
> 
> of too
> young to understand, really, but three years later I read my dad's copy of
> "The Bridge at Andau". When he found out he remonstrated that it
> was not a book for children. ( How true. )
> One thing has puzzled me, since I read about it years ago, possibly in
> a column by Tom Kneitel in 'Electronics Illustrated', possibly, as it 
> puzzled
> many in the West, no doubt: shortwave messages pleading for help from
> the Hungarian rebels in the last days of the rebellion, or - as I  recall 
> -
> even after the rebellion had been crushed. The theory, unlikely as it may
> seem, was that these broadcasts were really created by the KGB*  to rub
> salt in the wounds of the impotent Western powers.  It's a mystery, and
> AFAIK still unresolved to any more definite explanation. I I vaguely 
> recall
> seeing in the New York Review of Books some years back an exchange of
> letters (pre email, of course, hi ) about the subject. Damn me, I wanted 
> to
> save that copy, but I fear I tossed it in one of the paper purges. One 
> writer had
> been in the U.S. Army armored at the time, and if I recall, his comments
> were how they were perfectly aware of what was going on but also felt
> totally paralyzed  as the West could hardly  initiate WW3 over Hungary.
> There might have been more in his anecdote about the radio messages issue,
> but unfortunately I can't recall.....( silicon memory is so much better 
> than
> organic memory...)
> -Hue Miller
> *Or was it the NKVD in those years?
> **You know, someone should come out with some thrilling but intelligent
> Cold War themed movies for us boomers. All the ingredients are there.
> 

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