Just the Eastern Bloc / Warsaw Pact technically.

Speaking of which,

In one outrageous example, Orbán has decided that the leader of the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet domination, former Prime Minister Imre Nagy, ought to be forgotten. Ironically, Nagy was once a figure whom a young Orbán extolled as “the last responsible Hungarian leader” in a career-launching 1989 speech. There, Orbán denounced the hypocrisy of politicians who “now rush to touch the coffins [of revolutionaries like Nagy] as if they were charms of good luck” despite having once “made us study from books that falsified the revolution.”

But with the decision this past year from the Fidesz-led National Memorial Commission to relocate a statue of Imre Nagy from its place in Freedom Square to a less central location near the Danube River, Orbán has himself become the falsifier. The firm in charge of the square’s reconstruction has justified the act by stating that the aim is to recreate the pre-1945 Soviet occupation appearance of the space, while Orbán’s critics have replied that this only erases the reality of the occupation. Paradoxically, other critics have argued that, given Orbán’s ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has expressed personal regrets over Soviet Union’s collapse, the decision may in part be motivated by a desire to appear pro-Russia.

The exact thinking is murky but the result is indisputable: Residents of Budapest woke up one morning just before New Year’s to find that the beloved statue, created by artist Tamás Varga, was no longer there. The bronze life-sized figure of Nagy, which had for 23 years rested his forearms on the railing of a bridge, back turned to the monument to the Red Army, gaze focused pensively towards parliament, had disappeared overnight.

The memorial’s original placement between the monument to the Red Army and the parliament building was more than a matter of available physical space: It was a reflection of Nagy’s identity as a pro-reform socialist who sought to “bridge the gap” between Hungary’s past and future by ending hardline communist rule. Nagy led the grassroots movement to topple the Soviet puppet regime in 1956 and briefly served as prime minister of the new government, promising democratic reforms and an end to the fighting. However, the revolt, which lasted just 12 days from October to November 1956, was crushed by Soviet tanks. The pro-Soviet government was reinstated, and Nagy was hanged two years later in a secret execution and buried face-down in an unmarked grave. His legacy as a national hero was only established in 1989 after the fall of Soviet rule in Hungary, with the statue to commemorate his legacy erected in Freedom Square in 1996.

Just the Eastern Bloc / Warsaw Pact technically.

Speaking of which,

In one outrageous example, Orbán has decided that the leader of the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet domination, former Prime Minister Imre Nagy, ought to be forgotten. Ironically, Nagy was once a figure whom a young Orbán extolled as “the last responsible Hungarian leader” in a career-launching 1989 speech. There, Orbán denounced the hypocrisy of politicians who “now rush to touch the coffins [of revolutionaries like Nagy] as if they were charms of good luck” despite having once “made us study from books that falsified the revolution.”

But with the decision this past year from the Fidesz-led National Memorial Commission to relocate a statue of Imre Nagy from its place in Freedom Square to a less central location near the Danube River, Orbán has himself become the falsifier. The firm in charge of the square’s reconstruction has justified the act by stating that the aim is to recreate the pre-1945 Soviet occupation appearance of the space, while Orbán’s critics have replied that this only erases the reality of the occupation. Paradoxically, other critics have argued that, given Orbán’s ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has expressed personal regrets over Soviet Union’s collapse, the decision may in part be motivated by a desire to appear pro-Russia.

The exact thinking is murky but the result is indisputable: Residents of Budapest woke up one morning just before New Year’s to find that the beloved statue, created by artist Tamás Varga, was no longer there. The bronze life-sized figure of Nagy, which had for 23 years rested his forearms on the railing of a bridge, back turned to the monument to the Red Army, gaze focused pensively towards parliament, had disappeared overnight.

The memorial’s original placement between the monument to the Red Army and the parliament building was more than a matter of available physical space: It was a reflection of Nagy’s identity as a pro-reform socialist who sought to “bridge the gap” between Hungary’s past and future by ending hardline communist rule. Nagy led the grassroots movement to topple the Soviet puppet regime in 1956 and briefly served as prime minister of the new government, promising democratic reforms and an end to the fighting. However, the revolt, which lasted just 12 days from October to November 1956, was crushed by Soviet tanks. The Soviet government was reinstated, and Nagy was hanged two years later in a secret execution and buried face-down in an unmarked grave. His legacy as a national hero was only established in 1989 after the fall of Soviet rule in Hungary, with the statue to commemorate his legacy erected in Freedom Square in 1996.

Just the Eastern Bloc / Warsaw Pact technically.

Speaking of which, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/11/25/history-in-the-unmaking-historical-revisionism-in-viktor-orbans-hungary/

Just the Eastern Bloc / Warsaw Pact technically.

Just the Eastern Bloc / Warsaw Pact technically.

Speaking of which, https://archive.is/eFSBY