Link to the Show / Show NotesIn this edition of Budacast, "Duel Citizen"
What would you do to escape a communist dictatorship? How about changing your citizenship from Hungarian to Italian? That’s what Vera Blinken and her mother did just after world war two and it’s a part of the tale that Mrs. Blinken recounts in a book she’s co-authored with her husband, Donald Blinken, who was a US ambassador to Hungary in the 1990s. Vera Blinken says that after she and her husband returned to the United States, after the ambassadorship, she felt that her story had come full circle and had the added dimension of her husband’s stint as a diplomat in Hungary. The Blinkens tell their story in a book called Vera and the Ambassador: Escape and Return and have great insights on Hungary, past and present.
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