Bela Szandelszky / AP
A man walks across the basement of the Pinter Gallery storing portraits of Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin before their auction in Budapest, Hungary, on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. More than 200 pieces of communist era relics were found by the Hungarian government in various ministries and state warehouses and will be sold in early December to benefit the victims of last month's red sludge disaster.
The auction proceeds will be given to Caritas, a Catholic charity, to help residents in western Hungary hit by the toxic red sludge reservoir breach in October. It's nice to see some benefit to the people of Hungary from the communist era, during which hundreds of thousands were sent to labor camps or otherwise disappeared.
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