Budapest Landmarks Before And After World War II

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  • Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
  • Before World War II and communist dictatorship devastated Budapest, the Hungarian capital was home to several architectural treasures that now exist only in photographs. Archival photos courtesy of Fortepan.
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Комментарии • 42

  • @louise_rose
    @louise_rose 8 месяцев назад +24

    Beautiful and sad. At a thrift shop here in Sweden two years ago I found a book with hundreds of quality photos of Budapest during the age of Franz Joseph and the Dual Monarchy, prior to WW1. The captions are all in Hungarian, a language I'm not familiar with, but the photos often speak for themselves of course, and capture the boulevards, great buildings, parks, pleasures and fashions of those decades - and the mighty Danube, of course... 🌹💗

    • @FurryCruz
      @FurryCruz 8 месяцев назад

      Google translate works very well with Hungarian, both in pics/text and spoken.

    • @louise_rose
      @louise_rose 8 месяцев назад

      @@FurryCruz I know, I would have to type it in letter by letter of course rather than simply copy-paste a chunk of text. The book I mentioned is on paper, not digital - it was printed sometime in the 1970s.

    • @mrsnow259
      @mrsnow259 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@louise_rose No you don't have to. The Google translate app (android and ios) has a camera function, you just need to take a photo to translate, but you don't even need to take a photo, it's enough if you just hold it over it and it translates live what the camera sees.

    • @flyingman2633
      @flyingman2633 8 месяцев назад +1

      Not really, Google Translate is especially bad for translating Hungarian (Coming from a native speaker)
      @@FurryCruz

    • @user-bchfldmgd
      @user-bchfldmgd 4 месяца назад

      Do you have the name of the book?

  • @redstar1408
    @redstar1408 8 месяцев назад +9

    Budapest is one of those cities where you can still see the bullet impact marks on many of the surviving buildings from both WW2 and the later uprising.

    • @uncle_matula
      @uncle_matula 8 месяцев назад +1

      most of them are from the 56th revolution, not WWII

  • @rederickfroders1978
    @rederickfroders1978 8 месяцев назад +6

    Havingbeen to Budapest its really fascinating to remember some of the modern landmarks and see what they used to be. Sad that so much has dissapeared

  • @theequalisermouse2301
    @theequalisermouse2301 2 месяца назад +1

    This makes me really sad. My father was from Budapest and came to Australia after WW2 with his mother and sister. My father never really talked about what they experienced during the war and what Budapest lost and I never asked as I thought he found it too painful to talk about.

  • @DacianRider
    @DacianRider 8 месяцев назад +22

    too bad they haven't learned much since then... still on the wrong side of history.

    • @stevemcgowen
      @stevemcgowen 8 месяцев назад +5

      Exactly. A friend of mine went to Budapest Christmas before last and left after a few days. He'd been before and loved the city. The last time he had trouble getting service at bas and restaurants, was called an immigrant numerous times, so left and met me in Prague. He's black..

    • @DacianRider
      @DacianRider 8 месяцев назад +4

      @@stevemcgowen sorry to hear that..

    • @stevemcgowen
      @stevemcgowen 8 месяцев назад +4

      He likes Prague better anyway and now knows not to go back to Budapest anymore. The people have MAGAt mentality...@@DacianRider

    • @strayhound3842
      @strayhound3842 8 месяцев назад

      @@stevemcgowen Should go check out Bucharest, He'll love it there!

    • @freebozkurt9277
      @freebozkurt9277 8 месяцев назад +3

      @@stevemcgowen Either you or your friend is a liar. All of Hungary is full of visitors, expats etc. of all races and no one gives a sh. In my home town, Pécs during my Xmas visit I saw two black guys playing football in a small football pitch among the apartment houses where I used to live and play football. No one is bothered by this.

  • @joegilly1523
    @joegilly1523 8 месяцев назад +2

    It looked so pretty there,sad that so much got wiped out ,flattened.

  • @AttilaKapodarca
    @AttilaKapodarca Месяц назад

    Wonderful and sad. Great video.

  • @tsogobauggi8721
    @tsogobauggi8721 8 месяцев назад +1

    I like that music. :)

  • @CT-uc6jw
    @CT-uc6jw 8 месяцев назад +1

    Can't bother to add verbal narration?

  • @roberthoyt7921
    @roberthoyt7921 8 месяцев назад +2

    Will any of them ever come back if not all of them?

    • @adoatero5129
      @adoatero5129 8 месяцев назад +1

      It's hard to imagine that happening in large scale for many reasons, although it would be great. It happened in some places after the Second World War (also in Budapest according to the video) The often brutal and emotionally deprived look of modern architecture is depressing, and I believe is weighing down people who can't avoid watching such buildings because of where they live (which is much of the world's population nowadays).

    • @farkasadam7290
      @farkasadam7290 6 месяцев назад

      Fortunately, some buildings have been restored or rebuilt recently. The biggest such program is the National Hauszmann Program if you are interested I can highly recommend you to look it up. You can find lots of interesting vision plans, and before and after pictures.

    • @p.b.5107
      @p.b.5107 3 месяца назад

      Search 'Steindl Projekt' and 'Hauszmann Projekt'

  • @Sferaristi
    @Sferaristi 8 месяцев назад

    Adam something needs to see this.

  • @karlbesser1696
    @karlbesser1696 8 месяцев назад +1

    In the 1970s we often visited the time-honored baths in Budapest. Despite communism, the great past of the empire was felt there.

  • @pez---
    @pez--- 8 месяцев назад +2

    sad

  • @darrenquarterman2611
    @darrenquarterman2611 8 месяцев назад

    Such an amazing city so beautiful one of the best places olive ever been

  • @nataliiateteruk585
    @nataliiateteruk585 7 месяцев назад

    The war changed a bunch of things.
    The Russo-Ukranian war that will lead up to 3rd world war changes all.

  • @Elainerulesutube
    @Elainerulesutube 8 месяцев назад

    😢😥

  • @edmundlively2840
    @edmundlively2840 8 месяцев назад +1

    It’s OK. Viktor Orbán is going to restore everything.

    • @DacianRider
      @DacianRider 8 месяцев назад

      if by restore you mean lose everything, then yes... he will. not surprised an egghead Austrian painter enjoyer / looking individual such as yourself promotes a toad like him.