05 June 2013

Hungary: Towards the Abyss - People & Power - Al Jazeera English

It's not being covered in American media, but the economic deprivations and tensions over immigration are leading to a massive resurgence in Right-wing and Neo-Fascist parties in Europe.

Muslims, Jews, and Gypsies are being targeted. And in some places like Hungary there are old grievances, unresolved from the World Wars that are also fueling the bitterness.

Most of today's Slovakia, the region of Transylvania,  and portions of Croatia and Serbia all used to belong to the old Kingdom of Hungary. When Wilson led the charge in the wake of WWI to break up the Habsburg Empire, Hungary was splintered. This shortsightedness (forcing the concept of ethnic-based political nations on a region that had never known it) led to the Hungarians joining with the Third Reich during WWII. This wasn't because they were fascists. It was about old grievances. By the end of the war, the Arrow Cross party took over and unleashed an orgy of death and violence.

'Music Box' which came out in 1989 dealt with this period in Hungarian history and was in part inspired by the whole John Demjanjuk episode.

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1 comment:

  1. Cal wrote a piece related to this documentary.

    http://leadme.org/hungarian-fascism-thoughts/

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