On Aug 2, 6:46 am, ppp1 wrote:
Hearing the rumours all over, that Szeged WGC is the worst organized
worlds ever. Why these "east block" countries get the comps all the
time? Playing the money card is total BS as if you fly $100K+
machines, you are afford to fly any where.

Any thoughts?

Perhaps some gung-ho reactionaries are so dim they need someone to
educate them that the Cold War is over.

We were in Wiener Neustadt in 1989, and the Hungarians had just opened
up the border, and you could already notice Trabant motor cars with
East German registrations there, presumably on a long round-about
expedition to visit friends and family in the West.

This led a glider pilots to speculate over a few beers that the Berlin
Wall would fall and there would be pressure for Germany to reunify.
There were also speculative comments about civil war in Yugoslavia and
the complete break-up of the country, rather earlier than some
politicians switched on to the issues.

Not long later, the first competition I attended in Hungary, I put a
few people's noses out of joint on our competitions committee when I
got home, saying it was the best run competition I had ever been to.
That was in 1992.

Whatever the issues with this event, and it's true there are some,
don't be tempted to fit the subject into some sort of cliched
political character assassination based on notions which aren't valid
any more. There are plenty of people in eastern Europe with initiative
and able to think much more clearly than this grade of over-
simplistic and patronising ********.