Not upset, it's a deliberate decision to not pursue the convergence criteria. Between 2016 and 2020 most of the criteria was nearly reached: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary_and_the_euro
Officially we didn’t switch to Euro, so they can manage possible financial crises better, e.g. for Greece it didn’t help back than that they were using Euro. Unofficially they get a lot of money by playing with the exchange rates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Hungary
Hungarian hyperinflation started only after WWII summer of 1945, after the country was already occupied by the Soviets. Budapest was already "deliberated" in February, and by April 1945 all of the country was under new management.
The main reason was the economy was basically completely destroyed. Retreating Nazi troops destroyed all bridges, and took everything moveable, what remained was taken by the Soviets. According to some estimates 40% of all wealth of the country was destroyed or stolen.
"Both sides" politics was only for a half day, and I think it's not a reason of the inflation directly. Horthy tried to do a separate peace with the Soviets, but he was overthrown by the Hungarian Nazis in the afternoon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Cross_Party#Arrow_Cross_rule
That's only in tourist places and big supermarkets, it's not very common. Officially we didn't switch to Euro, so they can manage possible financial crises better, e.g. for Greece it didn't help back than that they were using Euro. Unofficially they get a lot of money by playing with the exchange rates.
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German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius
I was wondering how the paralimpic runner who killed his girlfriend became the defense Minister of Germany, but it seems like it's not the same guy.
Original comic:
Yes, patent is from 2009, greentext from 2013
Mostly Hungarian Hungarians, but yes, it's in Transylvania, Romania, originally this event was a dual, Romanian-Hungarian cultural and political festival, but Orbán took it over in 2010, you can read the history of the festival in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bálványos_Free_Summer_University_and_Student_Camp
Images are from several Hungarian independent and opposition news sites:
Rewording your question why independent/opposition newspapers go to a place like this? Hungarian government politicians don't give interviews to non-friendly media, they simply ignore them, they only go to friendly tv channels, newspapers. Last time Orbán gave a full interview with proper questions was in 2009.
If a political journalist want to get some info first hand from Fidesz politicians, they have to go places like this, because there are no other option. High ranking Orbán friends partying there, and it's a public event, so they can go there, and randomly stop politicians, they can't run away. Journalists are usually banned from most government gatherings, this is an exception. Most of the photos taken there are of Fidesz politicians and talking heads, as you can see on the articles I linked, but most of you don't know them, so I just selected the funny and and most delusional guys
Szervízút a bicikliút, amit fasor választ el a közvetlen Dunaparttól, ahol inkább a turisták fognak használni, szóval nem lesz annyira rossza a helyzet mint a Budai oldalon, ahol csak egy vonal az elválasztás:
https://budapest.hu/api/file/image/jane-haining-rakpart-jellemzoi-metszetreiszlet.jpeg
3 autós forgalmi sáv és egy parkolósáv tűnik el, szerintem el fog férni ennek a helyén egy biciklis.
The soviet republic collapsed in 1919 August, Horthy took power in Budapest in 1919 November, and the treaty was signed in 1920 June, so they already knew the communist rule was over. So I don't think so.
And how memory of this continues to influence modern views?
As 30% of Hungarians were affected someway, nearly everyone has some family story. One of my great grandparent was living in what is nowadays Slovakia, and he moved to Hungary because he doesn't wanted Czechoslovak nationality. There are still around a million Hungarians live in Romania, several hundred thousand in Slovakia and a smaller community in Serbia and Ukraine.
Nowadays only the most far right wingers are on this topic though, from all nations, e.g. Romanian nationalists destroy sometimes old Hungarian cemeteries, Hungarian assholes say stupid things all the time, and calling someone Romanian is still a bit degrading term in Hungary (e.g. if you call someone an Romanian asshole is more terrible than calling it simply asshole)
Most of us all in the EU so it doesn't really matter.
Later, the Soviet union extracted products and resources cheaply from its satellites - did this contribute to resentment of Ukraine as the transit country (I heard similar from Romanians)?
The border between Ukraine and Hungary is so small, so it didn't have as much effect on us than on Romanians, so I don't know about this. There is only one or too big border station at all.
Today, the rural - urban political divide is similar in many other corners of europe, or even usa. I just wonder why the power balance in this case seems to be skewed away from the younger educated ‘city people’ in Budapest - maybe also specific demographics relating to those borders ?
There is one different thing, Hungarian is not an Indo-European language. If you heard about how hard is to learn Hungarian, for us every other language is that difficult, so that's a huge reason why only 28% of Hungarian speaks at least one foreign language. And a lot of people who can speak languages just simply leave the country to Western Europe.
Fidesz owns nearly every Hungarian speaking media. So if you can't speak any other language, the chance to get real news of the world is really small, unless you specifically reach out to the remaining few free Hungarian news sources.
The urban rural divide exists here as well, but this language barrier skews this. At the 2022 election Fidesz got 40% even in Budapest, while it got 50-55% on the rural parts.
It's been eons since I've seen those words.