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Hungary to sell communist-era relics at auction

Hungary to sell communist-era relics at auction

22 November 2010 16:52 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Hungary’s government says it will sell 230 communist-era relics including a life-size bust of Vladimir Lenin at an auction to benefit people affected by last month’s red sludge flood, the Los Angeles Times reported.

State Secretary Bence Retvari says the objects, also including paintings in the Socialist Realism style and photographs of Hungary’s communist-era leaders, were found in state warehouses "where they have been gathering dust for the past 20 years."

Retvari said Monday the auction will be held Dec. 6 and revenues will be given to Caritas, a Catholic charity, to help residents in several towns in western Hungary which were hit on Oct. 4 by a flood of toxic red sludge from a broken reservoir at an aluminum plant. Ten people died in the flooding and dozens were injured.

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