What s going on in Hungary now, from a strictly Hungarian point of view, is the continuation of the revolution of 1956. We enjoy absolute independence. The sovereignty of the state has been completely reestablished. Our membership in NATO has been endorsed by a plebiscite. Domestically, we have democratic government.
Elections are clean, well-attended.
And every time the central government changes, democracy and human rights are maintained. Many factors made it what it became. One is the fact that it was a very doctrinaire group that simply returned from the Soviet Union and set up shop. Except for R kosi, they d lived in the Soviet Union through Stalin s purges. They knew the monster and came back to Hungary with the intention to fulfill whatever the monster wanted.