HUNGARY

 The Hungarian Republic is a country in Central Europe with a capital city of Budapest.Hungary was part of the huge Austro-hungarian empire until the end of WWI when it was broken up and then at the End of WWII became a communist state in the warsaw pact countries.In 1956 the Hungarian revolution took place which was brutally suppressed by the soviet union.1990 saw the first multi-party elections and in 1999 joined NATO followed by joining the EU in 2004.

Monetary units:1 Forint = 100 filler

The First Note above is the 500 Forint note from 2005 sporting Ferenc Rakoczi II and Sarospatak castle on the reverse. Next is the 100 Forint note of 1993 with Lajos Kossuth, on the front and a scene from "took refuge from the storm" by Karoly Lotz. finally the 50 Forint from 1983, the front has Ferenc Rakoczi II again with a battle scene between the Kuruc and the Austrian Labanc.

A few years ago a few friends and myself went to Budapest and spent a pleasant week in the snow. we went to a park outside budapest where they had taken loads the soviet era statues and dumped them in a park, they then turned it into a tourist attraction !! The other thing we saw was the Museum of Terror, which was dedicated to remembering all the repression of both the Nazis and Communists, what I found strange was that the Nazis only merited one small room where as the communists had 4 floors dedicated to them but then I suppose the communist regime is more recent in the minds of Hungarians.