If rock music could bring down Communism in Hugary, could it bring down the Bush totalitarian regime under which we all now suffer?
Hungarian Says Rock Defeated Communism
"CLEVELAND (AP) -- Rock music played lead in giving Hungarian baby boomers the resolve to bring down their communist state, says one of those reformers who today is a government official.
"...Andras Simonyi, Hungary's ambassador to the United States, spent an hour Saturday night discussing the impact of Western songs on Eastern European politics before an invitation-only audience of 250 at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ... 'By keeping in touch with the music scene in the West, it kind of kept me sane and with the feeling I was part of the free world,' said Simonyi, an economist by training. ..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18159-2003Nov9.htmlAnother version from the Washington Post
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