On Sunday night, thousands of Hungarians — many of them young — crowded onto the banks of the Danube in Budapest. They waved flags. They chanted. Some of them wept. By the time Péter Magyar, leader of the victorious opposition party in Hungary’s national elections that day, appeared before them to declare that Hungary had been “liberated,” the result wa…
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