Abstract

“Shut up” or “Not even worth ignoring” is the answer anyone gets who dares to disturb the pleasant climate — a climate whose dank warmth weighs down on Hungarian workers and intellectuals as soon as they are no longer ready to compromise. SZETA dissidents who criticize poverty in Hungary are “rebutted” by the Western media with the cutlets in the allegedly so overfilled butcher shops. And those who would like to cite the subtle repression are reminded of Kadar's liberal travel policy: after all, the man from Sopron can sip his wine once every three years along the Rhine, and if his Western friends pay for it, even every year.