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NEW SERIES IN PICTURE Leslie Mandoki: So I made my luck in Bavaria.
Budapest bus station. It smells of diesel, dirt, sweat. For Leslie Mandoki the scent of freedom. The musicians just want to get out from the Hungarian dictatorship, when he on 28 August 1975 a rickety bus to Yugoslavia is increasing. It is the beginning of a spectacular escape …
Which begins with a lie. For his parents, he says that the aim of the trip a, cheap aika gold, rock festival. Mandoki is with his friends, Laszlo and Gabor Csupo Bencker already a successful musician. The songs of their jazz-rock band JAM inspire students in particular. "We deserve good," he says. "But we no longer wanted to live in a country where there was torture, censorship and the order to fire at the border." They also, tera gold, do not see why it is forbidden to travel to the West and there to play at festivals. "We wanted to freedom."
How to do that a friend had shown us a few weeks earlier. Now living in Sweden. The trio wrote him a letter with the request to give tips for the escape route and the reply sent to general delivery to, eve isk for sale, Rovinj in Yugoslavia. The letter Mandoki bakes into a roll and this is with an aunt in the U.S., visited him in Hungary.
increases as the trio in the bus, the wild young men with long hair know yet whether her friend really responds. Impatiently they wait two days in Rovinj. Then actually get an answer! "He wrote, cheap eve online isk, that we should escape through the Karawankentunnel," says the drummer. ". We have followed he would have said we should to the sea and swim, we would have done our desire for freedom was so great -. We would have done everything for that."
But as its objective the Eisenbahnroehre from the year 1906, the close connection to Austria is dangerous. The border runs through the middle of the eight-kilometer-long building. But the entrance is guarded. Heavily armed soldiers patrol with hot dogs. "Definitely Hungary, the Yugoslav border guards prevented the of the run, the state had a bounty of 500 dollars," says Mandoki. "It was no matter what. Death or alive."
With his two friends, he hides in a shrubbery near the tunnel entrance. The time of waiting and observation begins. "My heart raced with excitement," he says. "But that was nothing compared to what we should expect it …"
Read tomorrow: As the three friends run away in terror through the tunnel to freedom
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