(Miskolc, 30.06.2025-01.07.2025) What do you do with a decommissioned steelworks in the post-industrial age? You can turn it into a tourist attraction, as the Völklinger Hütte did, which we visited on the first stage of the tour. But you can also let it rust away and keep it under strict guard, as here at the former Lenin Steelworks in Miskolc. It was known by that name for over forty-five years, then, after the Solidarność revolution, it was privatized in the 1990s and subsequently dismantled. Lenin steelworks existed not only in Hungary, but also in Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Poland; interesting waypoints for a future tour...? If I had driven straight to the Jewish cemetery north of Miskolc to get an overview, I could have spared myself the cat-and-mouse game with the plant security guards on the former steelworks site. I hate to admit it, but the security guards made the rules, so I'll have to leave it at panoramic photos. As an alternative, I took a ride on the Lillafüred Forest Railway into the countryside around Miskolc; no rust red or steel gray, just green, green, and more green, which wasn't bad either.
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