[TheForge] OT - The science of driving.

[Andy Vida]

xlch58@swbell.net wrote:
> 
> When you get to see home movies of the Hungarian Revolution featuring
> your teachers rushing tanks with molatov cocktails, it leaves an
> impression as well.   Man could they drink and party though, especially
> for monks.  Didn't catch that until years later, but as an adult they
> are a pretty lively bunch, though they are dying off now.

	Hungarians do like their drink, that is for sure.

	While the guys were shooting at the Russians in Budapest,
	my parents were running across the border into Austria.
	They were caught several times and sent to jail, but the
	jails were so full they never stayed longer than three
	days.  The Hungarian Secret police were horrific bastards.
	My father witnessed parts of a beating a priest got.  They
	beat him so badly that he lost control of his bowels.  They
	then made him eat his own feces, then beat him to death and
	tossed him out a window and called it a "suicide".  Those
	were very, very bad days.  My father and his cousins were
	all black listed because they were aristocracy.  They were
	not allowed to attend the schools they wanted.  The only reason
	my father's father wasn't executed was because he was useful.
	He was an architect who went from designing theatres and opera
	houses to maintaining the roads.  At the end of the war the
	Russian soldiers took my great uncle Desmond and shot him
	in the village square where he was mayor.  They made my beloved
	great aunt and my two cousins watch.  Both cousins committed
	suicide and my dear aunt died six months later.

	All in all, the twentieth century was pretty grim.