This is probably not what he was going for when he commissioned all these pictures and sculptures of himself.
The Hungarian government is auctioning off a bunch of Lenin memorabilia to help pay for cleanup of the massive wave of toxic waste that flooded Budapest this October.
Some bourgeois bidders are just picking up kitschy decoration for their homes, but others appear to be having a little Communist-bloc nostalgia.
“When I was young, I didn’t really look deeply into the faults of the system,” says Mr. Torok, a real-estate entrepreneur who says that his business is struggling amid the economic downturn. “I lived a calm, secure life where bread cost 3.5 forints and everyone had a job.”
Hmm.