The day that Budapest became the city of suicides

Within the history of Budapest , and especially Hungary, it is well known that tragic episode happened after World War I in which, a bitter feeling of loss, desolation and sadness, began to blacken the hearts of its inhabitants.

In the mid-30s all medical and political authorities were very concerned about the high number of suicides that every day, they were carried out throughout the country.As is always said in these cases, it is enough that one decides to take his own life so that, when the news spreads , I just convinced those who had the same thought.

It may have happened that way or it may not.The fact is that it was never fully understood what factor or factors caused such a tragedy; blaming the war was logical, but gravity was so desperate that instead of delving into the causes, all of Budapest put its means to avoid the consequences: the losses, the suicides.

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Budapest, from the city of the suicides to the city of joy

You might wonder how they did it.How they executed that end as a solution to the unsupported pain of life.Most of those people chose to launch into Danube. Others did it through toxic substances , poisons that did not always ensure rapid death.

Perhaps the authorities adopted the routine of patrolling with ships the river tomorrow and night, in search of bodies and also with the idea of persuading all those or those who were on the edge of the bridges , tit locating, pending even that thread of indecision that united them to life.Also in pharmacies it was forbidden to sell certain substances but it was by exclusive medical recommendation.So, within the possibilities that were available at the organizational level, we tried to stop a little the suicide rate.

The day that Budapest became the city of suicides

Now...did all these strategies have an effect? Not at all. Maybe that's why a peculiar movement led by a polemic teacher and his hypnotist companion.They were the teacher "Jeno" and "Binczo".

We know...It may sound like a joke, a little lucky sainete, but in In reality, his goals were good:

-They thought that people had already lost due to war the ability to empathize with good things, l The positive and joyful things.

-The people, according to them, had in turn lost the ability to laugh, the emotion for simple, sentimental and positive things. The illusion was lost, and there was only the helplessness.

-What these two professionals of emotions and smile started, was something simple.They traveled from city to city throughout Hungary, making small shows in those who forced people to "smile" to draw a smile on their face .As you know, gestures sometimes have the power to evoke emotions, and that is what they were looking for.

-The result was good.Many people started smiling, but instantly, the crying appeared, those tears that served as both emotional relief and healthy release.It was a first step.

The day that Budapest became the city of suicides

Following these first initiatives, the government implemented other interesting measures:

The streets were filled with circuses and clowns.
Radio broadcasts stopped from time to time to tell funny jokes or anecdotes.
In the cinemas and theaters only funny, happy and positive works were seen.

The day that Budapest became the city of suicides

However, the results were not visible at street level , because the suicides They kept on giving each other.In fact, the case of a young woman who took her own life on her wedding day was very famous.How to explain something like that? What was really hiding behind this negativity, this pessimism?

The truth is that it was never fully understood.After this, many courses, programs began to emerge and social activities to remind people that it was the smile.It was common to see people with smiley masks or scarves with knitted laughter on the streets.We know it sounds absurd, but the end was simple: remember that so essential emotion in the human being, that universal communication that is the smile, the joy…

The day that Budapest became the city of suicides

You may wonder how this phenomenon ended, and if these initiatives were successful.We are sorry to tell you that it was not so, because soon, the world opened the curtain to the World War II .Once again, the reasons for smiling again were lost.

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