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Can Europe save Ukraine?

3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Laszlo Solymar |Sameer Hinduja

Is it too late for Europe to save Ukraine? The slumber lasted far too long. We need to wake up. As a 19th century Hungarian poet wrote in a different context: “Rabok leszunk vagy szabadok, ez a kerdes valasszatok”.(“Shall we be slaves or free men? This is the question, you have to choose.”)This is not a rhetorical question. If Ukraine falls it will be followed in a chain reaction by the Baltic States, by Poland, by Moldova, by the Czech Republic, by Slovakia, in fact by all of Eastern Europe.
Curiosity: vice or virtue?

1 month ago | thearticle.com | Laszlo Solymar |Sameer Hinduja

Curiosity in the human mind appears at best as something mildly reprehensible, but more usually as a regrettable aberration from normal behaviour. Popular wisdom is full of warnings against indulging in such behaviour. “Curiosity killed the cat,” says the English proverb. “Don’t be curious because you grow prematurely old,” say the Hungarians. The Russians are rather drastic. They have a young lady, Barbara, who is so curious that she puts her nose into every merchandise in the market.
Aunt Kata and the crystal vase

2 months ago | thearticle.com | Laszlo Solymar |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Let me start with the family relationships. Marianne was my wife for 68 years. Our first-born is called Gillian. By 1990 she had studied PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics) at Lincoln College. Oxford. Kata was Marianne’s aunt, Gillian’s great-aunt, who lived in Budapest all her life. As a teenager in the early 1930s, she had been a promising dancer. Unfortunately, before she reached 20, Kata fell in love with everything sweet — without discrimination.
Capital blunders: the case of Karl Marx

Jan 21, 2025 | thearticle.com | Laszlo Solymar |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Member ratings Well argued: 100% Interesting points: 100% Agree with arguments: 100% 1 rating - view all In 1950 all Hungarian Universities (including the Technical University of Budapest where I studied) had to introduce two new compulsory subjects: The Russian language and Marxism, subjects in which we were examined.