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A portrait of President Woodrow Wilson from 12 December 1912 (detail)

Woodrow Wilson and His Global Vision of Democracy

‘At times the only way to make the world safe for democracy, as Wilson envisioned, is to assume an amoral position, which may require a courtship of impure partners, even at the risk of tolerating their immoral policies. Yet notwithstanding…
Prefabricated houses in Kecskemét, Hungary in 1973

The Era of Socialist Realism and Industrialized Prefabrication in Hungarian Architecture

To address the housing shortage, nearly 1 million dwellings were built under the housing programme between 1961 and 1975, 300,000 of them in Budapest; and a large part of the country’s population still lives in the apartments built during that…

A Glimpse into Russian Domestic and Foreign Propaganda and How the West Can Exacerbate It

‘Else than the Azov militia, the most well-known example of radicals fighting in Ukraine is that of Denis Kapustin (also known as Denis Nikitin), the leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), who led multiple raids into Russia from Ukraine….

The House of the Nation Documentary Celebrates Hungarian Parliament’s 120th Anniversary

The documentary will be premiered to the public on 14 June at the MOZ.GO Hungarian Film Festival, and is also expected to be available on streaming platforms….

A Short History of Hungarian Beer Brewing

Now that it is almost summertime when a cool beer can come in handy, we invite our readers to a brief journey through time to discover some fun facts about the past and present of beer brewing in Hungary….
La Paz skyline (Wikimedia)

Frontiers of Our Diaspora: Hungarian Emigrants in Bolivia

Refugee groups started trickling in after the catastrophic defeat of the Austro–Hungarian empire in the First World War and the dismembering of the historical Hungarian Kingdom, resulting in the loss of many ethnically Hungarian territories for Hungary. The destruction of…
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Revealing the Facts: A Brief History of Earnings in Hungary

A sustained and substantial improvement in earnings started in 2013 in Hungary. In that year the country managed to repay its previous IMF loan, giving the government more freedom to reform and restructure the tax system, including reducing taxes on…
Bishop Vilmos Apor (in the carriage on the left) and county lord-lieutenant Lipót Polniczky driving from the train station to the Bishop’s Castle in Győr on 1 March 1941.

The Good Friday Martyrdom of Bishop Vilmos Apor

Vilmos Apor is known as the Bishop of the Poor, and as the martyred prelate who was fatally wounded defending the girls and women under his protection from Soviet soldiers on the Good Friday of 1945….
Gold bars of the Hungarian gold reserve kept at the Hungarian National Bank, photographed in 2021.

The Unfortunately Eventful History of the Hungarian Gold Reserve

During the regime change following the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Hungarian National Bank gradually sold almost all of the country’s gold reserve, which by 1992 fell to around three tonnes, with the proceeds from the sale of gold…
WWI graves in the Heroes’ Cemetery in Sopronbánfalva, Hungary.

The Heroes’ Cemetery in Hungary: Reflections on the Challenges of National Memory

How should we Hungarians relate to our heroic dead who perished in the two world wars? Some thoughts and proposals by our Sopron-based contributor Botond Szabó….

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