That is absurd. Hungary was in the EU for 20 years, and besides that had a long history of orderly government as a part of the Habsburg empire, and semi or full independence as a modern state. Hungary was not a dependency of Austria but, most of the time, an almost equal partner. A lot of Eastern Europe was ruled, by Hungarians, from Budapest.
Hungary has been in the heart of Europe, culturally, for a thousand years. Its language of governance and education was Latin, until just the last century. Its been continuously Catholic also for a millenia.
Ukraine was an imperial possession of Russia, Imperial or Soviet, sharing all its backwardness and savagery.
So Hungary was not under the control of Moscow post-WW2 until 1990 ? Have you told them that ?