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Remembering Horthy’s election as Hungary’s governor, March 1, 1920
Those of you who are in the habit of checking Hungarian news sites might have noticed today that practically all newspapers and more important internet news sites carried lengthy articles about Miklós...
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Remembering Horthy, who rode into “sinful” Budapest 100 years ago, “with...
As far as I could ascertain, the far-right Jobbik began to celebrate the arrival of the National Army in Budapest on November 16, 1919 ninety years later, in 2009, when the most radical wing of the...
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Remembering the Hungarian Soviet Republic
A two-day “scientific” historical conference on the Treaty of Trianon, organized by the Hungarian National Museum, just concluded. According to the director-general of the museum, the participating...
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In place of Imre Nagy, a memorial for the victims of red terror
As I was surfing the internet to learn more about the “Memorial of the National Martyrs” that will replace the statue of Imre Nagy, martyred prime minister of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, I came upon...
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Three recent op-ed articles in Magyar Idők: Disinformation, hysteria, and...
It often happens that a particular article, especially one that appears on the op-ed pages of the government newspapers and internet news sites, arouses my interest, but for one reason or other I don’t...
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Sándor Lezsák: “A quiet prayer for Miklós Horthy”
I must say I was shocked when I read the text of Sándor Lezsák’s speech that he could not deliver because the “memorial mass” for Miklós Horthy, the regent of Hungary between the two world wars, was...
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“Memorial mass” for Miklós Horthy cancelled
Governor Miklós Horthy, Hungary’s regent between 1920 and 1944, is in the news again thanks to the Keresztény Értelmiségiek Szövetsége/KÉSZ (Association of Christian Professionals), whose Budapest...
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The Hungarian Jewish community feels abandoned by Netanyahu’s Israel
Viktor Orbán did his best to make his meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu in Budapest a failure. First, quite unnecessarily he wove into one of his speeches a laudatory reference to Admiral Miklós Horthy,...
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In Orbán’s opinion Miklós Horthy was an exceptional statesman
Another day, another speech. Yes, Viktor Orbán delivered another speech which, with the exception of one short passage, was nothing more than his usual collection of clichés about “those people whose...
View ArticleThe Metamorphosis of Sebastian Gorka
Perhaps today is the best time to republish my second article on Sebastian Gorka, which originally appeared in LobeLog on March 31. Gorka just had quite a row with Chris Cuomo on CNN’s “New Day,” which...
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Spotlight on Sebastian Gorka’s Controversial Medal
Today I am republishing a piece I wrote for LobeLog, a foreign policy internet site, which appeared on February 24, 2017. It was a follow-up to the couple of Hungarian Spectrum posts I had done on...
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Miklós Horthy will not have a statue in Perkáta after all
In December 2015 Viktor Orbán, under American pressure, declared that no Hungarian politician who remained in office after Hungary’s occupation by German troops on March 19, 1944 could have a memorial....
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The Veritas Institute’s legends and myths about the Hungarian Holocaust
Let’s return to history today for at least two reasons. The first is that as time goes by it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Orbán government, by setting up a number of historical...
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Miklós Horthy redux
While the anti-refugee propaganda is loud and shrill, the rehabilitation of Admiral Horthy, regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (1920-1944), is quietly taking place in the background. About a month ago...
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Fidesz and the Horthy regime: Statue for the anti-Semite Bálint Hóman?
On March 6, 2015, the Budapest municipal court rehabilitated Bálint Hóman, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the post-war People’s Court in 1946. The charge was that he, as a member of the...
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Viktor Orbán’s civilian weaklings versus assertive soldiers: El-Sisi and Horthy
Viktor Orbán, although he tries to act as if all were well, is in a political fix. He desperately wants to regain his lost voters but doesn’t know how. He is still casting about for a viable method. A...
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Mária Schmidt’s latest opus: The love story
Mária Schmidt is familiar to the readers of Hungarian Spectrum. This latest article of hers also appeared in Heti Válasz, her favorite publication. Her vision of Jewish-non-Jewish relations as a love...
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A historical exchange: Mária Schmidt versus Mária M. Kovács
Viktor Orbán decided to move. In the dead of night, surrounded by hundreds of policemen, the infamous statue commemorating the German occupation of Hungary arrived on Szabadság tér. In no time a few...
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A critique of a political analysis on Hungary by Stratfor’s George Friedman
In the last few months I have been getting a daily newsletter from Stratfor, a private intelligence and forecasting company. No, I’m not a subscriber, and I doubt that Stratfor has many individual...
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The Hungarian far right today and in the 1930s
Not much of any political relevance happens over weekends in general but on a long weekend, as Easter is in Hungary, politics takes a real holiday. Today’s highlight was the resurrection of Hungarian...
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