Update

I haven't been blogging very much because I've been so busy. Here are the high lights:

• Travis visited last week, so sometime soon (this weekend?) I will post pictures. We visited a lot of places, including Buda Castle and the baths. 
• I am starting to recognize street signs. "Ájto és ablak" (Door and Window), "Új Sherlock, Új Holmes"  (New Sherlock, New Holmes)
• I've watched a few really good movies in my film class.

Other than that, classes are going well and it is still snowing!

Review: Terror Háza Múzeum (House of Terror Museum)

http://www.terrorhaza.hu/en/museum
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A Short History of the Building

The House of Terror Museum is a memorial to the victims of the fascist and communist regimes in Hungary. The building was used as headquarters by the Arrow Cross Party (the Hungarian Nazi Party) in the 1940's. Until 1944, Hungary preserved a legitimate, elected parliament and government. That March, Nazi Germany occupied Hungary, and gave power to the Arrow Cross Party. The building came to be called the "House of Loyalty," and the basement was constructed for political prisoners, who were tortured and killed within the building.

At the end of World War II in 1945, the Soviet Union occupied Hungary and set up a single party communist government. Stalinist policies were adopted, thousands of Hungarians were killed or sent to Gulags. Ethnic cleansing continued, food shortages abounded, and thousands became political prisoners. During this period, the building was taken over by the ÁVO and ÁVH (Hungarian versions of the KGB), and the interrogation, imprisonment, and execution of political prisoners continued in the building. The name of the building was changed to the "House of Terror."

What does AIT look like?