Ivan Markó, Hungarian ballet dancer who became an international star but never defected – obituary
Lifted out of poverty in Communist Budapest by a ballet scholarship, he called Hungary ‘the most comfortable barracks in the Soviet camp’
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Lifted out of poverty in Communist Budapest by a ballet scholarship, he called Hungary ‘the most comfortable barracks in the Soviet camp’
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