Sunday, April 10, 2011

The eagerly pointing man on the imposing monument just outside the Parliament in Budapest is Hungarian Regent-President Lajos Kossuth. He was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician and, from 1849, Regent President of Hungary. Widely honoured as a fighter for freedom and democracy he ended his life in exile in Italy.

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