[Milsurplus] OT re: Images Past-Present

Tue Aug 21 11:31:28 EDT 2012

Thanks Robert, I just put it on my Netflix list. To answer Hue's question,
to the best of my recollection one of the main reasons the revolution lasted
so long was that the VOA was fueling the fire by saying the Americans are
coming to help. Of course, they never did. We left about the 5th day of the
revolt as refugees by walking to Austria, from a close by town where we
lived. My parents, and three kids in tow, me being the oldest, having just
turned 11 the previous month. I am thankful they made the decision to leave,
and, choose to come here. 73 - Mike

Mike B. Feher, N4FS
89 Arnold Blvd.
Howell, NJ, 07731
732-886-5960 

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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.
> 

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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