Those who control Hungary’s past control its future! Those who control its present, control its past!

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!”

Is Hungary’s Appeasement of Putin Justified by its Past Experiences? IV

Chapter Four: What was/ is Appeasement? – Hungary in The Era of the Two World Wars. Preface: Present Day ‘appeasers’? On 8th July 2024, Hungary’s Prime Minister and current President of the European Council paid another visit, on his own initiative, to Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Later the same day, the Kremlin launched yet anotherContinue reading “Is Hungary’s Appeasement of Putin Justified by its Past Experiences? IV”