The legislation that prohibits public places from being named after people involved in 20th-century totalitarian regimes was introduced in Hungary over 10 years ago and other public spaces named after some of the questionable figures of the 20th century—mostly people who were involved in the Hungarian state socialist dictatorship in the honour of whom many streets were named before 1989 Albeit the very purpose of naming a place after a person is to glorify them this is not the reason why these street names were preserved—they were simply untouched after the fall of the Berlin Wall because their existence was forgotten there are 698 public places named after people involved in totalitarian regimes in Hungary as the Hungarian political magazine Mandiner pointed out These street names do occasionally lead to public outrage Fegyvernek (a 6,500-strong town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County) made it into the news as the town had both a Marx and an Engels Street The mayor of the small settlement justified not changing the streets’ names by the excessive paperwork it would require to do so Fegyvernek already made an attempt to shake off its state socialist legacy and renamed 12 public places—places named after Marx and Zoltán Schönherz (leader and martyr of the Hungarian workers’ movement) still retained their names As part of the 2013 wave of renaming streets Red Star Street was renamed after the famed Hungarian statesman Ferenc Deák and the street named after the Red Army took on the name of Wendelin of Trier According to the list comprised by the Community of Hungarian Patriots Bács-Kiskun county was the leader in questionable public place names a total of 109 locations named after people involved in the introduction and maintenance of 20th-century totalitarian regimes were counted Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg country had the second most inadequate street labels; there 60 such cases were reported by the Community while Zala and Tolna counties had the least number of disputed street names Some of the listed names are less problematic (such as the ones named after Gagarin) there are four public places included in the tally named after Béla Kun (leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic after World War I; Kun was also involved in the so-called ‘red terror’ that led to the murder of many innocent people) The anti-communist website also made available the new names of the public places in case they were recently changed Some modifications are rather creative—in Bács-Kiskun county a Communist politician who was killed fighting against the 1956 revolutionaries who rebelled for Hungary’s freedom and sovereignty that entirely changed the meaning and social-historical context of the locality the tension between the excess administrative burden involved in changing the names of these streets and the need to cleanse Hungary’s history from totalitarian narratives Such small but meaningful alterations also enable people living in the street to better adapt to the changes —while it is difficult to get used to radical novelties (for instance even years after renaming Budapest’s Moscow Square to Széll Kálmán Square people still often call it by its old name) people can get used to such small changes easily who made an unforgettable contribution to Hungarian history by defending the fortress of Eger against the Ottoman invasion in 1552 the names of public places and memorials went through a series of rapid changes Most places dedicated to totalitarian regimes were eliminated—but not all of them the replacement of these old names which still reflect the country’s totalitarian past has been happening slowly Hungary will gradually rid itself of all signs of having glorified totalitarianism and the people who maintained it Hungarian Conservative is a quarterly magazine on contemporary political philosophical and cultural issues from a conservative perspective Halálos kimenetelű közúti közlekedési baleset történt 2018 május 19-én 10 óra 40 perc körül Kuncsorba és Kétpó között Az elsődleges adatok szerint egy fő a helyszínen életét vesztette, a további három sérült ellátását a mentőszolgálat munkatársai megkezdték - írja a rendőrség Később kiderült: a balesetben egy kamion és két személygépkocsi ütközött A kettészakadt autóban ülő személy a helyszínen életét vesztette A rendőrök teljes útlezárás mellett folytatják a baleset helyszínelését A Törökszentmiklós irányából érkezők Kengyel a Mezőtúr irányából érkezők Túrkeve irányába kerülhetik el az adott útszakaszt