April 07, 2019 Sunday
Bedtime Story
Party of Communists from Hungary
The Party of Communists from Hungary that
was formed on November 24, 1918 largely consisted of members from urban
industrial working class who were mostly of non-Hungarian ethnicity and none
from the countryside.
The new party had very few ethnic
Hungarians.
This is the reason why the new communist
party was named the Party of Communists from Hungary rather than the expected
or the traditional “The Hungarian Communist Party”.
The Communist government led by Bela Kun
ushered in policies that are classical of Communist policies.
All the aristocratic titles were abolished
and all privileges bestowed upon them were withdrawn from immediate effect.
The church was separated from the state and
freedom of speech and assembly was curtailed and codified.
All the industries, landholdings and commercial
enterprises were nationalized.
All sectors including banking, housing,
transport, and health care were socialized.
These national policies are noble-sounding and
just in principle and almost all political parties across the world promise
these or something similar to such policies around the world these days.
In poorer third-world countries during the
time of elections suddenly the wretched poor and the desperate debt-ridden farmers
become the fulcrum around which all the political parties pivot around to be
only forgotten immediately.
But in reality these policies simply do not
work for many reasons; and so was the case with Hungary.
Implementation of these policies
immediately led to twin disasters of food shortage along with hyperinflation.
Strangely enough I saw the same twin
disasters occurring in the Soviet Union in 1991 when Communist policies were
being withdrawn and free-market policies were ushered in.
Besides all these hardships being heaped
upon Hungarians by the new Communist polices who were already reeling from the ill
affects of the catastrophic Great War all the promises by the Communist Party
in recovering its lost territories came to a blunt and disappointing naught.
The sentiments of the Hungarians had reached
a new nadir and this time the blame could unambiguously be attributed to one
factor – The Communists whose leaders were largely of Jewish descent.
It is therefore not surprising why the
sentiments of the Hungarians – both the general public and the politicians –
changed dramatically towards the Jews.
It was only in 1919 at the Versailles and
Trianon Teleki had made the following statement regarding Hungarian Jews:
“The majority of Hungarian Jews have
completely assimilated to the Hungarians.
…from a social point of view, the Hungarian
Jews are not Jews any more but Hungarians.”
But this positive opinion would change very
soon.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
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physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
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