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Members of the Coitus Punk Group were sentenced to two years in jail when their songs and behaviour — which included tearing apart a live chicken — were held to be 'incitement to disaffection'. A Hungarian dissident considers the grounds for this charge and concludes that in an ideal world he would ban the glorification of brutality.

In the later 1970s, Hungary experienced the emergence of a youth culture influenced by Western punk. It arose simultaneously with a new political movement seeking to initiate autonomous democratic political activity, though the two were connected only through officials' fear of both. A particularly controversial case involved the trial of a punk group for tearing a live chicken apart on stage, though the charge of cruelty to animals appears to have been a pretext to cover political hostility. One of the group's members expressed a desire for the end of the State in a written statement. The punk group has repeatedly condemned the Hungarian way of life. Their trial raises important issues of personal liberty & of when provocative self-expression can be considered harmful to others. W. H. Stoddard