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This is an entertaining story about a young man from Transylvania who illegally crosses the border to Hungary shortly before the collapse of the Soviet block. I visited Budapest a couple of years ago and I wish that I had read this before I was there. It would have given me the background for some of the things I heard and saw. The young man took up robbing banks and post offices. His escapades highlight the challenges of law enforcement during that time period and serve as a contrast to the hig
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