Duna Kör
Duna Kör (German: Donaukreis) is a Hungarian environmental organization that was founded in 1984 to prevent the construction of the Nagymaros power plant . Opponents of the power plant argued that it would cause an environmental disaster that would displace thousands of people from the villages where their families had lived for centuries. Opponents of the regime soon joined the burgeoning environmental protest, and in the autumn of 1988 the Danube District had around 10,000 supporters who actively demonstrated against the dam in the streets of Budapest . These actions reflected the protests in the summer of 1988, when over 30,000 people marched through Budapest to express their anger over plans by the Romanian government to level entire Hungarian villages in Transylvania . It was the biggest protests in Hungary since 1956 .
These events are seen as the beginning of the erosion of communist rule in Hungary, which ended in May 1990 with the first free democratic elections.
The founder of Duna Kör was the biologist János Vargha . In 1985 the organization was awarded the alternative Nobel Prize, the Right Livelihood Award .
Web links
- János Vargha / Duna Kör at the Right Livelihood Award
- János Vargha at danube.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Introductory Essay | Making the History of 1989 . In: chnm.gmu.edu . Retrieved August 3, 2017.
- ^ Duna Kör / Janos Vargha (Hungary) . Right Livelihood Award. Archived from the original on November 30, 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2011.