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Magyar of Hungary did a three-hour "Q & A" session with the press today. Not a standard press conference but something where he actually answers questions. This was to contrast with Viktor Orbán who dispensed sound bites. Magyar also requested that the independent journalists be heard first, since they'd previously been left out of things. Reuters' summary of the Q&A (Link) The Guardian's summary of the Q&A (Link)

It's going to take lots of optimism and lots of hard work.

I'm not intending this as spamming this thread with Hungary celebrations. Just feel like we could all use some hope.

Nathan Dean (Parsons) on Maurice's State of Mind, April 12

Lucy's pet duck.

In the Hungarian election, Péter Magyar's Tisza party defeated Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party by a two-thirds supermajority. Magyar and Tisza are considered "center-right" so it's not a leftwing victory. But it's certainly a victory against Orbán's dictator style, against Putin, and against Trump. Magyar says he wants Hungary to be more a part of Europe again, so this is a victory for Europe, too. So yeah lots of dancing!

This was two days * before * the election that defeated Orbán

Zsolt Hegedűs, a leading candidate for health minister, dancing as his Tisza party celebrated a landslide victory that ended Viktor Orban’s long rule. (video via Noémi Zalavári of RTE Hungary television.) https://www.instagram.com/p/DXDDMk0IOWn/ noemizalavari Hegedűs Zsolt - aki az egészségügyi miniszteri szék várományosa -boldog. Zsolt Hegedűs — who is the prospective Minister of Health — is happy.

(posted via ‪Katalin Halmai‬ ‪@eublogo.bsky.social) Journalist Márton Bede of 444.hu about the election result: “What makes this regime change especially powerful is that Hungarians achieved it without the tailwind of history. In 1989, change came with the Soviet Union’s collapse and Western support; in 2026, the winds blow the other way”. 2/1 “Hungarians chose freedom at a time when its appeal in the West is weaker than at any point since 1945. This may yet mark a turning point—and if so, Hungarians can be proud of being the first to reject the post-democratic, illiberal stagnation of the past two decades”. 2/2

"444.hu" is an independent news outlet in Budapest. This is from the "444.hu" youtube channel, they are interviewing celebrators in the crowd. Lots of young people saying Orbán was all they've known for the past 16 years and they are really looking forward to hope finally. You can adjust the gear icon on the youtube to go to subtitles which appear at first to be only in Hungarian, but you can actually set the subtitles to autotranslate to English and other languages. „A legszomorúbb országból a legvidámabbak lettünk” "We went from the saddest country to the happiest"

This is fascinating! And I just found that Strasser interview from TVGuide quoted in the "seed of doubt" section of the Victor Lord wikipedia page Very very interesting! Edit to add, I appreciated reading what Robin said there. The whole Victor/Viki retcon makes more sense to me now.

Fascinating because I was 11 or 12 years old watching live when Viki started splitting into Niki Smith, going out and having fun and flirting with Vinnie. My older sister explained that Viki had a "split personality" and the little that was known at that time -- there was no internet for me to research on. This was when there was a storyline about Victor disapproving of the Larry/Meredith romance, and somehow that stressed out Viki? That didn't make sense but that's why they said Viki was stressed, that her father was so controlling of Meredith, or something like that, and then also Meredith got sick. Lots of family stress impacting Viki who loved her sister Meredith. Or at least that's how my sister understood it, that Viki was worried about Merry (Meredith). I didn't know anything about multiple personalities (and it wasn't "multiple" then, only one alter on the show at that time) . . . so I just accepted the explanations given by the dialogue and my sister. And in the 1970s I knew that Nancy Pinkerton's Dorian let Victor die. It was clear she was guilty of causing his death. I was at a friend's house watching the day that aired. In the late 1990s or early 2000s, I tried to learn what I had missed. I was stunned to learn of the whole Victor molesting Viki backstory and that Viki had multiple alters. That seemed so very far away from the Ernest Graves' portrayal of Victor Lord that I remembered. I just couldn't accept it. Maybe that's why I didn't dive back into watching OLTL?

I am so glad I happened to pop by this thread today to see that 1968 clip! Most of what's discussed on this thread in recent months has been 1990s OLTL which I never saw. I saw things occasionally when visiting a friend, but very rarely. In the late 1990s and in the 2000s I read stuff on soapcentral but didn't pay close attention. I may have seen some episodes on soapnet, so I had some idea of what was going on but I couldn't relate to a lot of it. It was so different from the soap I remembered. Seriously I often have no idea what's being discussed on this thread when it's about the 1990s, even though I know most of the names.

Omg thanks for posting! That's my Victoria, my Victor, my Larry, and my Vinnie, talking about my Meredith! (I started watching OLTL about 8 months after this aired). But it's not my Jim Craig! I don't if I ever saw this one before. I loved Larry and Meredith together. Cool to see Jim Storm's Larry there! in a sense, Jim Storm and his brother Michael Storm literally felt like the same Larry to my 11-year-old self with no soap magazines or internet to learn about the recasting. I saw them both on broadcast TV, thinking they were the same actor. Michael Storm is of course the Larry I really know but I hadn't realized that he was originally portrayed by the brother until many years later, probably reading it on "amcpages.com"(soapcentral) or on one of the Pine Valley fan sites. I don't think I was watching on whatever day Larry was recast if they had one of those "the part of Larry Wolek will now be played by... " voiceovers -- I don't remember that. I didn't recognize the nurse, yet she seems familiar. Thanks for the youtube's description explaining that she's character Karen Martin, I name I don't remember. But then reading what @Vee said "the first "Karen (Martin) Wolek," a scheming nurse who got involved with Larry IIRC, married him and was swiftly dispatched after a while. She was a spoiler for him and Meredith." So then I found something about her on the Larry Wolek wikipedia page. This explains SO MUCH. I of course saw the "1970s Karen" (with both castings including Judith Light) but I probably thought she was the original (maybe?) . . . Perhaps I was confused by there being two Karens marrying Larry!!! One the other hand, I strongly remember Karen and Jenny Wolek's arrival in mid-1970s as sisters who were COUSINS of the brothers Larry and Vince (distant cousins, thus making Karen's romance with Larry accepted). It's likely that I had completely forgotten that the * other * Karen character (Karen Martin from this video) ever existed, although I followed the OG Meredith/Larry romance closely.