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I’m in Hungary to ask why most kids who end up in children’s homes are Roma gypsies. Are the people taking them away from their homes doing the right thing? Is racism behind the mass removal of Hungary’s gypsy kids? Stacey Dooley, Gypsy Kids Taken From Home, BBC 2018
They’ve been taken from their families in huge numbers. ibid.
At the heart of [Isaiah] Berlin’s thought was the question of individual freedom and how to protect it. For Berlin the greatest threat to individual freedom in the world was the Soviet Union. In October 1956 the Hungarian people had risen up and toppled their Communist government. In response Soviet forces invaded and brutally suppressed the rebellion massacring thousands. The Soviet action shocked the world. Adam Curtis: The Trap III: We Will Force You to be Free, BBC 2007
Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries. Kevin Keegan
In 1922 the secrets of a provincial lodge was published, exposing the underground work of the Freemasons, leading to the revolution in October of 1918. The book claimed that above all Freemasons worked though the press with patient and persistent labour. They succeeded in gaining over most of the press organs. Philip Gardiner, Angels, Demons and Freemasons
An especially lively currency-exchange market emerged in Hungary, which became an early centre for major money-laundering operations. Such was its appeal as a base for transnational criminal operations that it was not long before the most powerful Russian mafia groups selected Budapest as their forward base in Central Europe as they sought to expand their activities eastward. Misha Glenny, McMafia
With the war almost lost, the Nazi regime pushes to conclude the mass murder of European Jews. In 1944, in Nazi occupied Hungary, 430 Jewish people are sent to their deaths at Auschwitz. By the end of the Second World War, the Nazi regime will have murdered an estimated 6 million Jewish men, women and children. Rise of the Nazis s2e3: War, captions, BBC 2022
This is the story of a man in Nazi-occupied Hungary who saved thousands of Jewish lives. Of a man who risked his life to negotiate face to face with the Gestapo. The story of Rudolf Kastner. Secret History s8e3: Last Train from Budapest, Channel 4 2000