In 19 89, the great dramatic moment was this extraordinary re burial of imra nog who was the leader of the 19 56 revolution. 300 thousand people in heros square budapad to mourn the man who was prime minister during the dramatic days of tn 56. It was a remarkable event because it wasn't totally clear that the soviet system and the communist system hadt been dead.
The same man who helped usher in democracy in Hungary is the one who’s chipping away at it now. American conservatives want to know how Prime Minister Viktor Orban did it.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers and Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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