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People are pretty apathetic to this war in Hungary. 3 complete generations have grown up under Russian communist oppression, and the "Ukrainian" persecution and harassment of ethnic Hungarians in the Trans Karpathian region has been going on for over a century, so we have historical skepticism against both sides. People don't know about the Right-sector, or Azov, but they're not blindly supporting Ukraine either.

You don't see blue and yellow flags anywhere on the streets, or only very rarely. Only very left wing globalists eurocrat shills put it up.

People think of Putin as an autocratic leader, but an OK one at that. It's like "Yes, he probably does shady things from time to time, but he gives us gas and oil, so we really don't give a fuck". Obviously the big city liberals are more on board with the message, and the rural areas less so, but both the average and the median person is apathetic.

So to answer your question, neither side enjoys any special empathy or hostility, it's like harassing any other guy: don't do it.

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Hungarians/Magyars as a people, are historically anti-Russian/anti-Slav & pro-Nazi, & generally would like to see the death of all Slavonic peoples. Honest Magyars say this openly, others pretend that its all about "Soviet oppression" - crap. No it isn't. Hungary hates Russia.

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"Muh racism, muh fascism..."

I never understood how nazis got so popular in Germany but after reading your comment the appeal of their message of "mentally hindered people are just a burden on society" starts to make more sense.

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An intelligent person would respond with facts - say that Miklos Horthy never really was an ally of Hitler & the Hungarian population was against him - but that is simply not true & you know it isn't. So you respond with imbecility - Hungarian massacres as Nazi allies in Serbia, Novi Sad are very well documented. Hungarians hate Slavs & want to exterminate them. Fact. Having Orban as head of state changes nothing - he's not pro-Russia either.

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I don't need to prove anything, the burden of proof is on the accuser. You're the one making a huge claim (that all Hungarians have always been racist against all Slavs), because they committed genocide against Serbs in certain times in history. Guess who else committed genocide against the Serbs? The Croats. Not too far back either. So are Croats racist against slavs now? Or is that a standard that doesn't prove racism against slavs?

Horthy was not a fascist. He was a revisionist and a nationalist. He wanted to revise the Versailles treaty that stripped Hungary of 70% of its territory and 50% of its population. And that was what the treaty said, the Serbian army would go on to march north. Romanian army was in Budapest in 1919, well after the post-WW1 borders were agreed upon. Serbs were aiming to push the border up to lake Balaton.

Hungary opressed all minorities on its territory, as did everyone else at the time, and was hostile to Yugoslavs, Romanians, Slovakians and Ukrainians (or whatever the fuck they were called at the time). We hate people who surround us because they pieced up Hungary, not because they're slavs. The Romanians are not slavs (or at least they don't claim to be), and we hate them the most because they took the largest chunk out of Hungary (entire Transylvania), with the largest Hungarian population (around 1.5 million).

In Europe, everyone can list a time and place where they were wronged by the other country at some point in time. Everyone committed some form of genocide or other attrocity at some point and tallying points of who transgressed against who the most is never gonna work because everyone feels like they have been wronged the most. The only thing we can do is extend the hand. But I don't see you as the type of preson who's ever agreeing to that, so I didn't see any point wasting 15 minutes of my life typing it out.

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I think the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, like the Hungarians, Czechs, Polaks, Slovaks, Serbs, hell, even the Romanians should join forces. We all value family, Christianity, we all hate the degenerate west, and forge alliances based on common interests, instead of bickering based on crimes committed against each other almost a century ago. It's why we're doing so poorly economically. You as a Serb (I assume) should know this, of all people. Yugoslavia was the most prosperous country in the region, basically the best living standards in all of the Communist block, until NATO fanned the flames of nationalism to divide and tear apart the country along ethnic and religious lines. And you have to accept that you are going to have to move past those national traumas if you want to return to greatness. If we let the world use our differences to pit us, Christian conservative countries against each other, we will always be just "shithole Eastern European countries". To become strong we must learn to cooperate, and I agree with Orbán's policy on becoming more friendly with Serbia.

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