I was watching Rick Steves (It's an awesome travel show, for those who don't know) and he talked about the "House of Terror", in Budapest. I'm kind of fascinated by this because of the interesting political statement it seems to make...
[img]http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/quip_terror_museum.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/artsAndMusic/Julia%20Cao%20-%20House%20Of%20Terror.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.budapestimages.com/files/imagecache/photo-preview/photo/090206152835.jpg[/img]
To explain...Budapest was ruled over by two terror regimes, both from this same location. The extreme Right-Wing Nazis, and the Extreme Left-Wing Communists. Under both governments the country suffered severely. The house gets is name from all the "big brother"-type operations that took place within it. Closely monitoring the way the people thought, violent interrogations, even executions took place on this very spot, by forces commanded by Hitler, and later, Lenin.
The building now serves as a memorial museum dedicated to the victims of the Nazis and the Communists.
It kinda makes you think...
Everyone's got their own political position, and everyone seems to think that the world would be better off if everyone followed purely their one side of the political spectrum. But the House of Terror seems to prove that both Left and Right Wings are pretty much dicks.
The only way to find peace, it seems to imply, is in the balance between the two powers, not the triumph of one over the other.
Look up more information on the House of Terror here: [url]http://www.terrorhaza.hu/en/museum/first_page.html[/url]
i would like to go there
that sun-shade thing is a cool idea
Different ideas, same atrocities.
So Budapest now, basically, has a museum about the most dangerous and scary point in there history?
It is interesting because for the people who were lucky enough to not live during that period in time could learn about it.
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Everyone's got their own political position, and everyone seems to think that the world would be better off if everyone followed purely their one side of the political spectrum. But the House of Terror seems to prove that both Left and Right Wings are pretty much dicks.[/QUOTE]
No, the fascist leaders of the left and right wings are dicks.
[QUOTE=Dummkopf;18861784]Different ideas, same atrocities.[/QUOTE]
Exactly. Commie or Fascist, both sides of the Political spectrum are complete dicks.
[QUOTE=sp00ks;18861854]No, the fascist leaders of the left and right wings are dicks.[/QUOTE]
Fascist is the term for extreme right-wing only, I think.
Awesome.
That means people can care about their otherwise unnotable country forever.
I'd go there, although knowing that some of those people who caused the terror were from my country, would make me feel like shit, most likely.
Pretty much like the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Cambodia.
[QUOTE=Ryu-Gi;18861859]
Fascist is the term for extreme right-wing only, I think.[/QUOTE]
Not sure.
[quote=THE DICTIONARY!]1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control[/quote]
[QUOTE=sp00ks;18862270]Not sure.[/QUOTE]
Well, I've never heard a Liberal person get called Fascist. They get called Commies.
That's because people are idiots.
This looks extremely interesting. Definitely somewhere I'd like to visit in the future.
[QUOTE=Wii60;18861777]that sun-shade thing is a cool idea[/QUOTE]
Yeah, looks pretty sweet.
I was hoping for a bad ass haunted house.
Somebody make a bad ass haunted house thread.
I was there. One of the coolest museums here. If you are in Budapest, visit it, it's gonna be memorable.
[QUOTE=Treybuchet;18861881]Awesome.
That means people can care about their otherwise unnotable country forever.[/QUOTE]
I could prove you wrong about my "unnotable" country with so many things, but you don't seem to be worth the effort. :v:
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