Hungary 
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SOURCE: Associated Press
11/30/2020
US Embassy in Hungary slams article likening Soros to Hitler
A Hungarian culture minister suggested that the Hungarian-American Jewish financier's advocacy of stronger democratic standards in the EU--which reflect criticism of right-wing governments in Poland and Hungary--are similar to the crimes committed against the two nations by Nazi Germany, among other attacks.
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9/6/2020
A Coup of "Clerqs"?: Anne Applebaum's "Twilight of Democracy" Reviewed
by David O'Connor
Anne Applebaum's new book looks with concern at the rise of right-wing populism in Europe and the loyal party functionaries who enable its march.
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SOURCE: Times of Israel
US Holocaust Survivor Who Spent Decades Fighting For Family’s Looted Art Dies
Family of biochemist and tabletop designer Martha Nierenberg, 96, says they’ll continue legal battle for art collection, stolen by the Nazis and still held by Hungary.
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7/3/2020
New Novel "The Collaborator" Explores the Moral Ambiguities of a Holocaust Rescuer
by Diane Armstrong
Do we have the right to judge the actions of people in life and death situations? Are we honour-bound to keep promises, no matter to whom they were made, and in what situations? Can a man be a hero and a collaborator?
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6/14/2020
Hungarian-American Relations in 1849 and Today: Why We Need Another Lajos Kossuth
by Tim Roberts
A Hungarian nationalist visited the United States in 1849 to plead the case for an independent, democratic state, inspiring the cause of abolition in America. Today Hungarian-American relations are running in the direction of authoritarianism.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/31/2020
Coronavirus Kills Its First Democracy
You could say that Hungary was already “immunocompromised.”
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/26/19
Hungary’s Orban hopes a rabbi can save his country’s controversial new Holocaust museum
Initially, a Hungarian official spoke of a museum that would highlight the "story of love between Hungarian Jews and non-Jews. A love that has survived everything. As a result of which there is still a large Hungarian Jewish community living in this country." The premise was decried as Holocaust revisionism by historians and museum professionals worldwide.
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3/17/19
Why the U.S. Bombed Auschwitz, But Didn't Save the Jews
by Rafael Medoff
Seventy-five years ago this week—on March 19, 1944—German troops marched into Hungary. The country’s 800,000 Jews, the last major Jewish community to have eluded the raging Holocaust, now lay within Hitler’s grasp.
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SOURCE: BBC
2/11/19
Holocaust row taints Hungary's House of Fates museum project
Arguments over the whole concept of the museum, and the content of the exhibitions and educational centre which will operate there, have long delayed the opening.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-28-2018
Hungarians Fume as Statue of Former Leader Is Downgraded
Imre Nagy, the communist prime minister executed for rebelling against the Soviet Union, is a hero to many in Hungary — but not to its far-right government.
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SOURCE: hagalil.com
11-5-2018
Hungary: Zero Tolerance for Anti-Semitism?
by Karl Pfeifer
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s claims to the contrary Jews are living in fear in Hungary – and with good reason.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
11-27-18
Randolph L. Braham, leading historian of the Holocaust in Hungary, dies at 95
Dr. Braham described Holocaust scholarship as his “destiny” and fought against moves to whitewash Hungarian collusion with Nazi authorities.
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11/18/18
Is Thanksgiving Thanksgiving If We Are No Longer Welcoming Refugees?
by William Lambers
What we’ve lost by being mean.
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3-26-17
What’s Going on in Hungary Is Alarming
by Karl Pfeifer
Once again the country has been taken over by a xenophobic, anti-Semitic party that sees conspiracies everywhere.
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10-20-16
The Inspirational Leader Hungary Found When the People Revolted Against the Soviet Union in 1956
by Jefferson Flanders
His name was Imre Nagy. He was a hero.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-14-16
Townspeople and Treasure Hunters in Hungary Search for a Sultan’s Buried Heart
The site is believed to be where Suleiman the Magnificent spent his last night before 50,000 of his Ottoman soldiers sacked a nearby fortress defended by 2,500 Christians led by Miklos Zrinyi, a local Croatian-Hungarian nobleman.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
3-17-16
The Nazis and Hungary took everything from my mother’s family. What good would reparations do?
by Margaret McMullan
That’s the thinking of Margaret McMullan, author of "Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return."
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SOURCE: New Europe
12-14-15
Diplomats protest the glorification of Hungary’s anti-Semitic historian Balint Homan
The statute commemorating the Nazi collaborator is erected by a “private group” linked to the far-right Jobbik party, but has received state and municipality funding, and has the moral support of the local Mayor, Andras Cser-Palkovics.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
10-5-15
Why Hungary’s PM should read up on his history before shunning Syrian refugees
by Ursula Rothe
For a start, Syria has a much longer Christian history than Hungary And. 2,000 years ago Hungary was home to a very large and prosperous Syrian community.
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SOURCE: Jewish News Service
3-19-14
70 Years After Hungarian Holocaust, Historian Protests Planned Memorial
Dr. Randolph L. Braham, a prominent Holocaust historian and a survivor from Hungary, chose to return an award he got in 2011.