Preface – Nineteen Eighty-Four & the ‘House of Terror’: On my second visit to Hungary in July 1989, I visited Lake Balaton with my then fiancée (now my wife of thirty-six years) and a Catholic priest. He asked me if I had read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. I replied that I had first read itContinue reading “Those who control Hungary’s past control its future! Those who control its present, control its past!”
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Is Hungary’s Appeasement of Putin Justified by its Past Experiences? V
Chapter Five: Hungary under Horthy – In the Eye of the Hurricane: It was largely the impossibility of reconstructing the order of Europe and the wider world as it was in January 1919 that swept away the ‘pacifist democracy’ that took over Hungary at the end of the First World War. It thwarted the firstContinue reading “Is Hungary’s Appeasement of Putin Justified by its Past Experiences? V”
