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   "Legalised corruption in the Communist days pervaded even the middle
   and lower echelons of our society in the form of wage calculations
   based on the expectation that practitioners of certain professions
   would be able to top up their scanty earnings through tips. This was
   true of everyone from taxi drivers, through petrol pump operators to
   doctors (though the tips there have a grander sounding name,
   paraszolvencia or hlapnz, translating literally as "gratitude money").
   Under Kdr, a political position was a means of lining one's pockets, of
   living the good life. Party lackeys were an elite, a caste unto
   themselves and had many traits in common with today's mafia in the way
   they went about their business of bleeding the state dry in creating a
   conspiratorial, secretive world where everyone who counts knows
   everyone else."
   "Never in the brief history of post-Communist democracy has the work of
   a parliamentary committee attracted such a great deal of attention or
   triggered such an outcry. Part of the fascination with Hungary's Oil
   Committee lies not just with the general human preoccupation with the
   seamier side of existence, the larger than life characters we have
   become so accustomed to from the pages of countless detective novelsand
   with a series of unexplained deaths, mafia retaliation hits and
   bombings, the oil scandals have all the essential ingredients of any
   paperback thriller..."

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