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December 23, 2012 03:00:28 PM

Name::

Claire

Your current location::

St. Louis

What's your revolution?:

Other/Almost

Your connection to the revolution.:

My grandpa was in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He was at the Parliament building protest when the Soviets started shooting, he was issued a rifle by the other revolutionaries, and his ambulance full of patients from his clinic was almost blown up by a Soviet tank in a Mexican standoff.

What are your revolution lessons? What did you learn that Egyptians, Tunisians, and others in the Arab world 2011 should know? What comes after a revolution?:

The Hungarian Freedom only lasted 2 weeks before it was crushed, but it proved to the world that the Soviets could be stopped.
However, what he has taught me from it is that I should appreciate my life here in the US, never take anything for granted, how to make some delicious Hungarian food, and our problems here really aren't that bad. He also taught me from his experience as a refugee that if I ever move to another country, that I should just let go of my American culture or else I'll hate the new country.