Have you ever been to Budapest? What was your favourite memory?

Great tourist selfies and some added funny music, thanks. Welcome and enjoy!

@gwinnsontheloose

11 ай бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!

So you climed to the high point, AND you took footage of the view! I dont know where you get your crazy ideas from Gwinn 😂

@gwinnsontheloose

11 ай бұрын

Ahahahaha it’s because you weren’t there!

In general nice video, but certain historical features are really distorted. Unfortunately, Hungary did take a part in the WW2 as Germany's ally - Hungarian Nazi troops committed war crimes against the nations in their neighborhood, plus took part in the Holocaust by deporting around 150 000 jews to Auschwitz. Germans still decided to take over the power there, to be in full control, but that does not mean Hungary did not take the part in the war on their side. Second, Budapest was not severely destroyed in final fights between Soviet troops and Germans , when Germans were leaving - I don't know where you found this information - but Budapest is one of the rarely preserved Central European cities. The really destroyed cities were Warsaw, Belgrade, Dresden etc, while in Budapest there were mainly a few buildings damaged in the castle area and a few bridges (and bridges probably ruined by Germans who kept destroying all bridges behind them while leaving). This leads us to the following questions: what did you mean by the statement "everything you see in Budapest is fake"? It is not, most of the historical architecture you see in Budapest was originally built in the end of XIX, beginning of the XX century, it was never demolished, and it has been originally preserved like this. They liked the classicist style, but it is not a "reconstruction", it is their original state. Also, 700 000 Hungarians deported to Soviets working camp during the communist period of Hungary is completely wrong information . Hungary had a communist government 1945-1989, which was under control of SSSR, like the governments of other countries of East Block in Europe (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Romania, DDR)I but it does not mean that during that period Soviets "demolished" and "ruined" country, and why would they do that, Hungary was their ally during Cold War. Soviets actually built two biggest and most important metro lines in Budapest and a lot of other infrastructure, like everywhere in East Block. There was an uprising of Hungarian patriots who did not want Soviet influence in the country in 1956, which caused basically a civil war between pro-Soviet and anti-Soviet Hungarians, and, unfortunately ended up by pro-Soviets winning and Soviet tanks marching into Budapest, but it wasn't anything new, Soviet troops were present in every country of East block, and supported each country's communist party (like NATO is present now in every NATO member country). Around 100 000 Hungarians, mostly intellectuals left the country then for the west, because they did not feel safe in the communist country. So, nothing is new under the sun, there are always big powers and small nations, but, I think you should have more researched, because I think you got a wrong impression that Budapest was destroyed in XX century, and then reconstructed, but this is not true, Budapest has been actually very lucky to have stayed well preserved.

@Patreides9

3 ай бұрын

" in the Holocaust by deporting around 150 000 jews to Auschwitz" ---> 426.000, actually.