
Christopher Clark & Katja Hoyer: Revolutionary Spring
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The Great Pains of the 1848 Revolutions
The 1848 revolutions have been misremembered and misunderstood in retrospect as national events but at the time they appeared as anything but to those who actually took part of them. In Germany interestingly they're not a failure you know you see them as kind of the first attempt at German democracy. Victor Orban speaks very warmly about the heroism of Chandor Péto if he wrote what is still the national anthem of the Hungarian nation. The so-called martyrs of Aarad who were killed and executed by the Austrians at the end of the Hungarian independence war only three or four of them could actually speak ModjarOnly three or four could speak Hungarian and it's important that
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