Earlier this summer Hungary built a seven-foot tall Ronald Reagan statue in the center of one of Budapest’s most popular squares. The statue faces down the city’s last remaining Soviet-era monument, giving it the same heat-vision stare that caused the Soviets to evaporate during the Reykjavík Summit.
At the same time, another popular square in the city named Roosevelt Square was renamed after a famous Hungarian, following a Hungarianization trend in the city in which many public places are being re-christened.
FDR for Reagan is a trade I’ll make any day. Now if only we could do it with current US economic policy…
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