NationStates Jolt Archive

It has only been a year since the current Hungarian prime minister, Ferenc Gyurcsány, was exposed via audiotape as being both corrupt and a liar, two things he himself spoke of in the recordings. Ferenc Gyurcsány had made several claims of the state of the Hungarian economy and it's failed transition to the 'free' market economy, all of which were untrue, to win the elections for his Hungarian Socialist Party. The result, along with long standing anger at his policies of increased taxation on working people, increases in utility bills, inflation, corruption (Ferenc Gyurcsány himself made millions from the theft of national assets in the 'shock therapy' era of rampant capitalism in the 1990s) and other things which anger the Hungarian people greatly, caused the biggest riots and demonstrations since the 1956 uprising.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_protests_in_Hungary

Out of thise anger comes the Magyar Garda or Hungarian Guard in English. Allied to the nationalist Movement for a Better Hungary party, it poses a force in Hungary, with 600 joining it's ranks within the first three months and over 5000 people making a pledge to join after. The Magyar Guard are backed by known veterens of the 1956 unprising, clegery from the Catholic Church and a former Minister of Defence, making this movement, unlike the more marginalised nationalist movements of other European nations, a force to be both acknowledged and a force that can and may alter the landscape of Hungarian politics.

Some pictures of the Magyar Garda:

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=113&c=14

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=116&c=14

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=117&c=14

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=118&c=14

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=122&c=14

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=133&c=14

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=134&c=14

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=135&c=14

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=139&c=14

http://www.jobbik.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=140&c=14

Oookay.. And?


Anything you want to discus, or is this just a wikipedia moment?

...The Magyar Guard are backed by known veterens of the 1956 unprising...

An elite fighting force of 70 and 80 year olds?

An elite fighting force of 70 and 80 year olds?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_the_Barbarian

An elite fighting force of 70 and 80 year olds?

anything but. a vanguard movement with Nazi symbolism and fascist links.

Im more worried about whether or not those old guys can get a rise, if you know what I mean.*





*im clearly talking about whether or not they can get their yeast to rise. :p

Would this be the same Magyar Garda which is associated with the far-right Jobbik party who's links to the ruling right wing Fidesz party have embarrased the leaders of Hungary, who seek to denounce anti-Semitism? I also hear that they are disrupting a possible alliance with German and British centre-right parties who are worried that Fidesz is associating with this bunch of neo-Nazis.

Hungry Fascists?

Wawaweewah?

It's the support of the Catholic Church that concerns me.

Would this be the same Magyar Garda which is associated with the far-right Jobbik party who's links to the ruling right wing Fidesz party have embarrased the leaders of Hungary, who seek to denounce anti-Semitism?

The Fidesz Party are not the ruling party of Hungary, the Hungarian Socialist Party has been in power since 2002. Regardless, it was actually the Fidesz Party which tried to gain the support of the growing nationalist, anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, anti-American hegemony and anti-neo-liberal sentiment in the country, by associating itself with the Jobbik Party, though Jobbik and the Magyar Garda reject the corruption and incompetence of Fidesz and rightfully see them as part of the same ruling elite as the current illegal regime in Hungary.