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The Hungarian revolution isn't what it seems

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"Why are we here? We are hopeful to see Orbán fall," said Laura, a 58-year-old lawyer, as she insisted I take a paper cup of the generously home-mixed vodka and orange she had brought with her to either toast victory or sweeten defeat.

Like thousands of other Tisza voters, Laura had come with her sisters, friends and niece to Buda's Batthyány Square, directly across the Danube from Hungary's floodlit Gothic parliament, to witness history, one way or another.

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