Posted on 10/05/2015 2:01:43 PM PDT by Lucy Hamilton
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary's prime minister lambasted his Croatian counterpart Friday, accusing him of being the envoy of a global left-wing organization with the job of attacking Hungary — some the strongest statements yet in neighborhood disputes caused by the migrant crisis.
Meanwhile, officials in the Czech Republic said they were willing to send more than 100 police and soldiers to help Hungary defend its European Union borders, which could include the border with Croatia. That could create the awkward situation of EU members guarding the borders of a fellow member country with troops.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that the parties in the Socialist International, which includes Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic's Social Democratic Party, support migration, think the wave of migrants reaching Europe is a "good thing" and their leaders "are following the orders not so much of their people as of the Socialist International."
Orban said on state radio that "we don't consider what the Croatian prime minister says to be the opinion of the Croatian people."
When they hear the Croatian prime minister, I ask Hungarians not to hear a Croatian man but an envoy of the Socialist International who is supposed to attack Hungary," Orban continued, adding that he had refrained from criticizing Milanovic until now in the interest of the long-term relationship between their countries."
http://news.yahoo.com/hungarys-orban-attacks-croatian-counterpart-over-migrants-121417057.html
I love Viktor Orban, his comments about the Croatian PM are classic.
Things are starting to get a little chippy in Europe.
Say what ever one wants about Putin but he believes in a strong Russia, the same as this guy who does what is best for his country while the socialists want to harm Europe and the west as a pay back for us being strong and wealthy compared to their crap holes.
Yes, especially in Austria, with the FPÖ (Austrian Freedom Party)doubling their support since the invasion by the Muslim horde.
Next - Polish general election on October 25th.
It's really gonna' be fun when Germany starts assigning the undesirables to the poorer EU countries.
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This is all well and good, but the world awaits word on what Barack Obama thinks about this.
Lucy I have copied this from the Thoo story. I have been to Transylvania and I really feel for those good people of Hungarian background as I stand with the president of Hungary. Vlad Tepes, I salute you!
>>Cameo 2 days ago 0 3
Small country that is, Hungary - at least today. In 1920, it was a large and powerful country - and it was blamed for de-stabilizing Europe (unjustly, I might add). So, some smart alec Western countries and the US’ then-President decided to chop off 2/3 of Hungary, and give it to neighboring countries. Read the story of the Trianon Peace Treaty, if you are so inclined.
The Hungarians, for the most part, would have even agreed with some of these cuts, but they lost their crown jewel, Transylvania, also in the process, with 2,000,000 (yes, 2 Million) Hungarians becoming Romanian citizens, overnight.
Well...it did not exactly contribute to stabilizing Europe, but these big bullies did not care. The wanted a quick fix to the post-WW I situation, and they saw Hungary as the culprit of all problems.
With Transylvania gone, Hungary lost a 1,000 (one thousand) year claim on that land, and it was given to goat herders who claimed to have been the rightful owners of it. Never mind they never had any legitimate claim, the French - Trianon is a palace outside Versailles - believed the Romanians because their language has a distant resemblance to Latin languages, whereas the Hungarian language is only related to the Finnish, so Hungarians must be then, Barbarians.
Interesting, because now history has run full cycle, and it is Hungary that leads the civilized response to the Jihadist occupation. The rest of the mighty-tidy West is acting like it completely lost its compassion - with its own people! And they call THAT civilized!
Thanks for that story, most interesting and also like you, I’m very sympathetic to the Hungarian people.
Have you read Miklós Bánffy’s “The Transylvanian Trilogy”? It comes in three separate novels thank goodness, as it’s very long. I recommend them, works of sheer genius. Naturally the Communists banned them:
“They Were Counted”, “They Were Found Wanting” and “They Were Divided”.
Miklós Bánffy was very opposed and upset with the Treaty of Trianon, he yearned for the Hungary of pre-WWI, which that Austro-Hungarian Empire, the culture and the people, is what the above books are about.
No, I haven’t read this trilogy, although, I did spend time wandering around Hungarian bookshops in Sighisoara and Cluj. Thank-you, I will make a note: the title will be easy to remember. Thank-you, Lucy, Hungarians fascinate me. In the Balkans their achievements stand apart.
I have read and still own most of Romanian Mircea Eliade diaries and one of his novels for the sheer beauty of his language and thoughts on religion and philosophy. It wasn’t until a few years ago, when I learned there is some controversy about his support for anti-semitism, which saddens me and I have not re-read him since.
I think one has to put things in the context of the time when things were written.
For instance, John Buchan, Edgar Wallace, Graham Greene, just a few examples, their books are full of anti-Semitism, but I still like their books.
I should also add, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare to that list.
Not to mention the entire 1920s reporting in The Times of London, including it’s Editorials.
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