Second attempt to flee the country
László Deres fled the country illegally swimming across the Danube at Mohács in August 1974. He met his expecting wife in Batina. They made it to the Yugoslavian-Italian border but due to exhaustion they gave it up and hitch-hiked back to Letenye. But Laszlo wanted to escape the border again, so he was swimming across the River Drava at Heresznye. “We set off at about 10 o'clock and we lost our way. If you lose your way in the forest at night, you lose it genuinely. You check directions on the map, and in five minutes, you end up going in the opposite direction. I told my mate, 'Hold on! I’m gonna climb up a tree and check where the river is.' I couldn't see a thing. Time for the compass! It showed the opposite direction. Which one shall we trust? 'Let’s rely on the compass!' We walked for less than 20 minutes when I already could smell water, and we actually found the river, too. We crossed it, which was rather cumbersome. The riverbank was quite steep, we could hardly crawl up to the top of it. I had a shoulder bag, with its strap torn, so I could hardly get a grab on it and the current there was strong. My clothes and my documents might as well have been gone. But, after all, we pulled it off.”
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