• And then there's...

    From Ross Clark@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 30 23:06:18 2025
    Memorial Day of the 1848 Revolution (1848–49-es forradalom és szabadságharc) (15 March, Hungary)

    15 March was the start of an insurrection against Austrian rule, which
    was finally suppressed the following year with the help of the Russians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848

    Did we do this one before? Doesn't matter, I just happened on this:

    "As a Hungarian, I certainly had no reason whatever to fall in love with Russia, whom I saw in the prime of my life as the oppressor of the
    national aspirations to libery and independence of my own country. The
    Russian campaign in Hungary in 1849 is engraved with indelible
    characters in the heart of every Magyar; and although the late Emperor
    Nicholas bitterly repented his brothersly service rendered to Austria,
    and notwithstanding that every Russian soldier has since torn from his
    breast the medal bearing the inscription "Vengria (Hungary) 1849," we Hungarians still couple the name of "Muscovite" with wilful tyranny and
    with all the horrors of despotism and barbarism."
    - Arminius Vámbéry, Travels and Adventures (1883)

    Then, on the next page, he uses the word "autopsy" in a sense recently discussed here (on a.u.e.?):

    "Now on this question [faults and virtues of the English]...I beg to
    have my own opinion, an opinion based upon autopsy and formed during
    many years of personal contact, while visiting more than thirty
    different towns of the United Kingdom."

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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