Talk:Kossuth (Bartók)

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With all due respect, Bartok surely would not have described Lajos Kossuth as a "politician". Neither does the Wikipedia article "Lajos Kossuth", which offers a great many other possible identificatory epithets for him. It's doubtful, despite the statement enshriend in the US Capitol to the contrary, that he was ever in a position to establish anything close to what we would now consider "democratic" credentials. Bartok was writing about the national hero of a nation which didn't at the time consider itself free or independentDelahays (talk) 17:47, 11 September 2021 (UTC)Reply