Why don’t we like them?” Katalin asked. “Because they don’t treat us right.” After Zoltán said it, he marveled at the realization that in trying to clarify years of abuses and lists of grievances, that in trying to make oppression understandable for a child, he had reduced the horror of Soviet domination to one simple, honest statement of fact: The Russians didn’t treat the Hungarians right.

Why don’t we like them?” Katalin asked. “Because they don’t treat us right.” After Zoltán said it, he marveled at the realization that in trying to clarify years of abuses and lists of grievances, that in trying to make oppression understandable for a child, he had reduced the horror of Soviet domination to one simple, honest statement of fact: The Russians didn’t treat the Hungarians right.

– Doris Mortman –

The Wild Rose

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