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Interview with Susanna Lapossy authoress of the recently released book Life behind the iron curtain I.
Hungary- where also you live- had a very varied 20th century history. What did you personally pass through of all these things? With my family nearly everything, just to mention WWI, Trianon-pact, pre-war peace time, WWII, German and Russian invasions, communist rule, relocation, 1956 revolution, iron-curtain time, socialism, regime change from socialism to capitalism.
What motivated you at the age of 76 to start writing a book? I wanted to create something dateless and it also proved to be a great fun for me. I wanted to commemorate my life and that of my ancestors. First I planned to give my book only to my children and grandchildren, so that they should know more about their roots. It is much more worth than a scrap-book, where rusty old photos can be found, but nothing is known about the characters and lives of the ancestors.
Those famous happy peace-times were happy indeed? Yes. For me the happy childhood began in 1923 in our peaceful, nice home. Our cloudless long family vacations gave me added inner strength and poise for my whole life.
Presumably this energy was needed in the eve of theWWII. How did you live through this time? When I was a teenage girl, the war already went on. Against all problems the happiest occasion took place during one bombing-attack of the Serb planes, when I met the the love of my life. Otherwise during this horror we lived from minute to minute and did not have other long distance aim, only one-staying alive. For example the tennis-club, where we used to play regularly with my friend not long before, was not far away from the place where the Russian sharpshooters fired around me with a machine gun, but in their good mood they did not kill me. Notwithstandig the bomb attacks we were to work in the air raid shelters of the factory underground. It was horrible to hear how the bombs tore the buildings above us into pieces.
The end of WWII did not mean liberation and peace for Hungary! What was it like to live behind the Iron curtain? Completely separated from the western countries, no news came in and no news left the country for 45 years. The “liberating and temporarily†here staying Russian troops deeply influenced the life of the whole population. The term Iron-curtain in effect meant the wire fence at the border that could not have been crossed over through the noone's land, but more about that in the book Life behind the Iron Curtain II.
This means that more books are to be published in the future? Yes. The story after 1956 would follow in the book Life behind the Iron Curtain II., my short stories in part III. of the same title. You know this new profession of mine holds my spellbound very much¦
Nowadays many leave Hungary in hope of a better living. How happened that you did stay here in 1956? I could not have left my mother-country. My liver inflammation was only a good cause towards my brother who left, because the communists forbade him studying and dismissed him from the university. We were only relocated to the county to kulaks -rich peasants. I collected lots of surviving experiences during my long life.
Have good health and thank you for the interview!Interviewer Chris Davidhouse Susanna Lápossy: Life Behind the Iron Curtain I. ISBN 1-4251-0524-6 Available online www.trafford.com/06-2282 international Trafford Publishing USA, Canada toll-free T:1-888-232-4444 orders@trafford.com Trafford Publishing UK T:/0/1865 722 113 F:/0/1865 722 868 info.UK@trafford.com