It’s intresting thinking about there are peoples wanting the regime back, especially in Hungary.
Just a reminder, Nagy Imre was himself always a marxist, and just wanted a more just, free and democratic Hungary (the demands also included better relations with Yugoslavia, and criminal cases against some of the Stalin-era red nobility). Much like the whole “Socialism with a human face” thing in the ČSSR, that mattered little to the red Fascists in Moscow. The tanks rolled regardless.
Hence, thanks to the horrors of Soviets in Prague and Budapest, we got that famous name for red Fascists: tankies.
Why on earth those modern day Stalinist are not treated with the same sentiment as Hitlerites is beyond me.
Avanti ragazzi di Buda
avanti ragazzi di Pest
studenti, braccianti, operai,
il sole non sorge più ad Est
When I was younger I went to Budapest and when I saw Terror haza on the map, I thought it was gonna be a haunted house or whatever. Naturally, I was disappointed to discover it being a museum dedicated to communist horrors, lol
Fun fact: the Hungarian Revolution, while failed, was a major contributing factor for why similar events taking place in Poland at the time were far more successful. The Polish demands for more autonomy were significantly less radical than those of the Hungarians, so the Soviets had a strong incentive to appease the Poles in order to “secure that front” and be able to focus on Hungary.
And lasted two weeks, but it is still inspiring that they maneged to get this far, especialy since it wasnt much pre planned, spontanously everyone just had enough.
Denmark have a poltical party that has its history in this.
A partymember Axel Larsen was excluded from the Danish communist party when he critized the Soviet Union for this.
He then started his own party “Socialistisk Folkeparti” (The Socialists People’s parti” which still exist today and have been in goverenment in Denmark.
His party got in with 11 seats and the communist party got out instead. Though they returned in 1973 but was voted out in 1979.
Careful now, lots of people nowadays on reddit that aren’t particularly fond of scolding this specific system you’ve mentioned. Tho on Europe subreddit it isn’t as much visible as on more USA driven ones.
11 years after operation Barbarossa and 5 years after the end of occupation of Germany.
They might have had a just cause, but it was absolutely doomed to fail. Soviets never would have let them go after they participated in the planned genocide of Jews, Russians and many others.
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It’s intresting thinking about there are peoples wanting the regime back, especially in Hungary.
Just a reminder, Nagy Imre was himself always a marxist, and just wanted a more just, free and democratic Hungary (the demands also included better relations with Yugoslavia, and criminal cases against some of the Stalin-era red nobility). Much like the whole “Socialism with a human face” thing in the ČSSR, that mattered little to the red Fascists in Moscow. The tanks rolled regardless.
Hence, thanks to the horrors of Soviets in Prague and Budapest, we got that famous name for red Fascists: tankies.
Why on earth those modern day Stalinist are not treated with the same sentiment as Hitlerites is beyond me.
Avanti ragazzi di Buda
avanti ragazzi di Pest
studenti, braccianti, operai,
il sole non sorge più ad Est
When I was younger I went to Budapest and when I saw Terror haza on the map, I thought it was gonna be a haunted house or whatever. Naturally, I was disappointed to discover it being a museum dedicated to communist horrors, lol
Fun fact: the Hungarian Revolution, while failed, was a major contributing factor for why similar events taking place in Poland at the time were far more successful. The Polish demands for more autonomy were significantly less radical than those of the Hungarians, so the Soviets had a strong incentive to appease the Poles in order to “secure that front” and be able to focus on Hungary.
And lasted two weeks, but it is still inspiring that they maneged to get this far, especialy since it wasnt much pre planned, spontanously everyone just had enough.
Denmark have a poltical party that has its history in this.
A partymember Axel Larsen was excluded from the Danish communist party when he critized the Soviet Union for this.
He then started his own party “Socialistisk Folkeparti” (The Socialists People’s parti” which still exist today and have been in goverenment in Denmark.
His party got in with 11 seats and the communist party got out instead. Though they returned in 1973 but was voted out in 1979.
Besides that he was an informant for the CIA.
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Larsen#Grundl%C3%A6ggelsen_af_SF
https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialistisk_Folkeparti#1958_%E2%80%93_1968
Careful now, lots of people nowadays on reddit that aren’t particularly fond of scolding this specific system you’ve mentioned. Tho on Europe subreddit it isn’t as much visible as on more USA driven ones.
11 years after operation Barbarossa and 5 years after the end of occupation of Germany.
They might have had a just cause, but it was absolutely doomed to fail. Soviets never would have let them go after they participated in the planned genocide of Jews, Russians and many others.