The world admires the Hungarian gypsy village

According to tudathalo.blogspot.hu, the village of Cserdi is dwelled by almost only gypsies, and it used to be a neglected small village at the end of the world. Like so many other small settlements, Cserdi went into a total decline after the change of regime: crime and alcoholism became common, people didn’t have jobs, so they made a living from thievery. But then, something miraculous happened…

The village wasn’t always like this. Until the 1990s the village had talented and diverse dwellers, who worked very hard to make a living off of basket-work. Then, when there was no demand for baskets, the deprivation started. Who knows what would’ve happened to the village if a gritty mayor didn’t turn up a few years ago. László Bogdán did something that no political parties, nor politicians were able to do in the last 2-3 decades.

The onetime criminal village is now flourishing, its dwellers are working and make a good living. When the new mayor was chosen, one of his first steps was to close the local boozer, and put the dwellers’ nose to the grindstone. They realised that they make quite a good living, so they took to production. They are happy to work on the fields, cultivate, hoe and harvest the profit.