BBC/ N. Thorpe
Last October, an aluminum factory's toxic red sludge nearly covered homes (above)...in Kolontar in Western Hungary.
On a visit after his nation's worst environmental accident...new PM Viktor Orban promised that everyone would be compensated with new homes or the cash equivalent.
Unusual for a politician today...Orban kept all his promises.
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