EVERYTHING AND NOTHING - Images from the Peaceful Revolution
EVERYTHING AND NOTHING - Images from the Peaceful Revolution

Summary/Abstract: What did the change of system mean to me? Everything and nothing. I know what the phrase means in terms of politics, in social life, in economics, in constitutional life, and so on. I can also suppose that after two decades, even after two months, I had a clear idea of what it meant. I also remember what the printworkers said, when the Hungarian Diary (Magyar Napló) republished (in 1989) in facsimile the legendary issue of the Literary Paper (Irodalmi Újság) from 1956, which included the famous poem One Sentence On Tyranny, and essays like the Rising Nation, and an Obituary in the Style of Thucydides. On the front page there was even a series of photos of an ever shrinking statue of Marx – though formally the system had not been changed yet. It shrank like a bad quality nappy in the wash.

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