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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:02:58 -0500
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- From: "(George Frajkor)" <gfrajkor@CCS.CARLETON.CA>
- Subject: Re: Who has the power? (fwd)
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- I found this cross-post from the Hungarian list amusing and
- instructive in that one of the complaines i heard the most in Slovakia
- is that thwe old commies are still in charge and are still profiting
- by the system even if the government is formally in democratic hands.
- Looks like that is not just a Slovak problem. Is it gene4ral in the
- former East European orbit? (Clearly so in Rumania, of course) but if
- we all have the same p[roblem how is it that no one has found a
- solution??
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- Joe Pannon writes:
- > From @vm.utcs.utoronto.ca:HUNGARY@UCSBVM.BITNET Fri Nov 6 19:40:48 1992
- > Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:14:20 PST
- > Reply-To: Hungarian Discussion List <HUNGARY@UCSBVM.BITNET>
- > Sender: Hungarian Discussion List <HUNGARY@UCSBVM.BITNET>
- > From: Joe Pannon <pannon@BCSFSE.BOEING.COM>
- > Subject: Re: Who has the power?
-
- > 6, 92 12:28 (noon)
- >
- > C'mon guys! You (at least the Hungarians) know quite well what Peter
- > Nemenyi meant by that poorly phrased statement about who REALLY holds
- > the power in Hungary. He only referred to the often repeated
- > complaint, that the changes in the last three years have only effected the
- > very top of the power pyramid. At lower levels you still find largely
- > the same people in positions of authority who were there before 1989.
- > All that happened was that the old political elit transformed itself to
- > economic elit, but in many cases not even that; they are parading
- > as "born-again" democrats in the various parties.
- >
- > One of the worse situations exists in the media, where the same editors
- > and writers, who acted as the public relations men for the communist
- > regime, find it almost impossible to write anything good about the first
- > democratically elected government. I don't mean they should write
- > anything good about it, if there is none, but surely, that's not the
- > case, anyway. All one would expect is objectivity. Instead of what we
- > get is a constant spilling of poison. Perhaps they could ask themselves
- > occasionally: which post-communist goverment in the region has done any
- > better than the current Hungarian one?
- >
- > No doubt, it also made many mistakes, but who wouldn't? Are governments
- > of Western democrocies without fault?
- >
- > Regards,
- > Joe Pannon
- >
-
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