Who wants to understand Hungary, should be aware of two dates: the 23. October 1956 and the 4. June 1920. Both continue to shape the self-understanding of citizens, as well as the notion of the State of all bodies and parties. From the decisions taken at that time, those Lessons have been learned, the drawing, the present-day Hungary characteristic, regardless of whether they are on the surface is not visible or in the root of the factory act.
The 23. October is still witness some time in memory. At the time, the most uprising broke out in Budapest, the power, the the occupied in a Soviet and Communist-ruled country in Europe since 1945, ever blazed. He was not surpassed in courage and hardness, but also of brutality, often on both sides up to the turn 1989. It was not a revolt of one ideological camp against another ideology. It is the uprising of a Nation against a powerful other state in which the system’s uniform, he also liked therefore was.
No prospect of anything Worthwhile offered the Hungarians, however, of the 4. June 1920. On the peace Treaty that was signed in the Palace of the Grand Trianon in Paris, reacted to the Hungarians with the cry “Nem, nem, soha” – “no, no, never”. Never the Hungarians wanted to come to terms with what the victorious powers of the First world war had them, “to the sky screaming injustice” done to. But it was so also? An Essay by Georg Paul Hefty.
The author was to happen until 2012 responsible editor for the Department of “time” of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
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