Source: VOA - "An unprecedented exhibition has opened in Budapest featuring anti-Communist art and writings that were banned when Hungary was part of the Soviet sphere of influence. The event opens amid renewed debate on freedom of expression in Hungary."A type of alternative music fills the exhibition hall of Budapest's Millennium Park.
The musicians are using tools and factory equipment to create music, making fun of the old obligatory socialist marches and long live labor songs from the Soviet era.
Under Communism they would have been arrested, along with any other artists or authors who dared to criticize the authorities. Such artistic resistance was known as the Samizdat Movement, and now it is part of an exhibit called "Samizdat: Alternative Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe from 1956 until 1989."
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16.02.2004