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Dear Polish friends,

In a time, when the newspapers in the EU write the propaganda of the Hungarian postcommunists against Orban and even against the Hungarian people, it is very good to see that there are friends outside Hungary, and that the historical Polish-Hungarian friendship survived the communist dictatorship. Orban belongs to the activists of the anticommunist resistance, not as famous as the Polish priest Popiełuszko, the symbol of the anticommunist resistance in Europe, but for Hungary the leading activist. As Hungary was still part of the Warsaw treaty, he openly claimed that the Soviet troops should immediately go out of Hungary that his country can join the community of the democratic countries in Europe for what the Hungarian peoples have fought in 1956. As the chairman of the Young Free Democrate Party (FIDESZ), Orban was one of the anticommunist activists when the Soviet supported Bolshevism was ousted in Hungary. His consequent struggle against communistic dictatorship and for democracy has made him to the most hated peoples among the Hungarian hardliner communists and thereafter among the Hungarian "socialists" which developed from the hardliner communists, best to describe now as postcommunists from the MSZP and their allies. For these reasons he was permanently attacked by the postcommunists and their allies, the "liberals" from the SZDSZ which procured the postcommunists the majority for 8 years government. This government was correctly characterized by Applebaum in the Washington Post as "one of the most incompetent governments in Europe. Hungary's Socialists run up debts, evaded reforms and squirreled away away money in foreign bank accounts". But this was only half of the problem. At first not only the postcommunists but also their allies, the "liberals" from the SZDSZ take part in the unbelievable corruption. This and the fact that the SZDSZ changed from a real liberal party into a supporter of the postcommunists lead to the break between the FIDESZ, the former youth organization of the SZDSZ and the SZDSZ. Whereas the SZDSZ got a satellite party of the postcommunists, the FIDESZ developed to a "Volkspartei" of German type, like the CDU and SPD. More and more members left the SZDSZ (finally much more than 90 %), and as the SZDSZ supported the Prime Minister Megyessy after it was clear that he was an officer of the Communist Secrete Service and he did no longer deny this, even the left liberals left the SZDSZ and the Hungarian "liberal" party changed into a radical leftist party. The only liberal remnants of this party are the support for homosexuals. Politically these "liberals" were as left as the postcommunists and they use their former connections to liberal parties to agitate violently against Orban and his FIDESZ. The postcommunist Prime Minister Gyurcsány explained in a speech at his comrades that his government was lying from the morning to the evening, there was no result of the government to which it can be proud, and they won the election only by permanent lying and the use of hundreds of tricks. This speech was taped and brought to western radio and newspapers and Gyurcsány did confirm that all these things he had said. As the peoples of Budapest went on the street and ask for resignation of Gyurcsány, the police acted as hard as during the communist dictatorship. Why nobody in the west has written in that time that the democracy in Hungary is in danger ? Only now, when these postcommunists were ousted they see a danger for the democracy in Hungary. During the communist time all my letters sent by mail were opened, later confiscated and sent to the ministry of Stasi in East Germany as copy from opened letters) or original (confiscated letters)I. Typical for the communists, for them only the "proletaric internationalism" was important or with other words to fulfill the wishes of the Soviet Union and communist hardliner regimes. To do positive things for the nation was a foreign thinking for the communists and also for the postcommunists as even confirmed in the speech of Gyurcsány. As the first conservative government came to power in Hungary after the communist dictatorship, I got immediately all my letters. This changed again, as the postcommunists came in power in the Horn government in coalition with the "liberal" SZDSZ. Again my letters were confiscated, only not sent to the Stasi because it was no longer existing. During the first government of Orban, again all the letters arrived. As Megyessy get Prime Minister of the next postcommunistic MSZP-SZDSZ government, again my letters were taken away and then even registered mail letters were sent back with the remark, I do not more live under this address, quite the same what was done during the communist dictatorship. And why a former officer of the communist Secrete Service should made a totally other politics than the communists ? After Megyessy was ousted in a "palace revolution" and Gyurcsány came to power, in the first half year of his government I have got my letters. I thought, the social democratic line was coming to power within the MSZP after Megyessy was ousted. However, after this half year, again my letters were taken away, not all but a large part. I think this is a clear violation of the democracy, but this government was not attacked in the western media. The tactics of the postcommunists is quite clear. After they failed in the last election they recognized that in Hungary not much people will believe them in their propaganda against Orban and the FIDESZ. The Hungarians do not like liars. Thus, they make this propaganda trough western media, successfully hoping they will not check the truth of the content (especially, if this propaganda was made by former members of the "liberal" party). They hope, if they will be successful with this propaganda abroad, this will also very much harm Orban and the FIDESZ in Hungary. For them is not interesting, whether this harms also Hungary and the Hungarians, because they were never patriotic but had learned only the proletaric internationalism.
The fact that the lying of the postcommunist government from the morning to the evening (speech Gyurcsány) has strongly influenced the elections as confirmed by former Prime Minister Gyurcsány shows a very important fact that was unfortunately totally overlooked in the Washington Post article of Applebaum. Everybody, who has lived in a communist country has known that the communists were big experts in lying. Thus, it should not have too much influenced the results of an election, if the postcommunists also were lying because simply the fact that they say now they are socialists does not change their character. The reason, why these lies have strongly influenced the elections as confirmed in the speech of Gyurcsány was that the majority of the media was in the hand of the postcommunists and "liberals", the TV, the radio and the majority of the newspapers. And all reported how good and successful is the postcommunist government and if they were against corruption, then not against the obvious corruption in the MSZP and SZDSZ, but against Orban and the FIDESZ which struggled against the corrupt system ("lop stop" = "stop the stealing" campaign of the SZDSZ against the FIDESZ in nearly all newspapers before the 2002 election. I cannot imagine that only Applebaum recognized that this postcommunist government was "one of the most incompetent governments in Europe". In Hungary nearly everybody has known it, even among the members of the postcommunistic MSZP, including even the Prime Minister ("there was not a single result of our government about which we can be proud" (above mentioned speech of Prime Minister Gyurcsány). Why nobody in western Europe recognized the manipulation of the media in that time that caused the fact that the corruption went u to a never before known level in Hungary (because the control of the government by the media did not work) and the Hungarian economy went down from the leading country among the new EU members to one of the last. And everybody could see, hear and read the Hungarian TV, radio and newspapers in the hand of the government which praised the success of the very good government (like the Neues Deutschland, radio and TV in the former GDR). And these postcommunistic peoples which had in hand and manipulated for many years most of the media now made in the west a propaganda that the Orban government wanted to manipulate the media by the new media law. Still now such newspapers, like "168 Ora" made in every issue a permanent propaganda against Orban and the FIDESZ but nobody punish them with the new media law. The Orban government has now explained the law to the EU and if after this explanation the EU wishes that parts should be changed, the government will do it.
As an example of an unfriendly propaganda against Hungary and Hungarians in the style of the (post)communists I will discuss an article in "Der Spiegel" Nr. 41 from 11.10. 2010. In general, I like to read the "Spiegel", but this article about Budapest with the title "Hauptstadt der Alpträume" could be even written by the Neues Deutschland before 1989. I expect from a well known German newspaper that they control the content of such articles for its truth. Already the two photographs that should document the right radical danger in Budapest under the new Orban government show that not much objectivity can be expected in such an article. One photograph shows a "demonstration of right radicals". No data , where it was and no data, when it was. Only two and a half faces are to seen, no right radical symbols , no right radical slogans. Only one face with a Hitler-moustache should demonstrate that is a right radical demonstration. It may be that there are some stupid right radicals in Germany with Hitler as idol, but in Hungary only the communists had and have foreign idols: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin. The Hungarian right radicals have only Hungarian idols, mainly far back in the history, often from a time, when the Hungarian came to Europe. A young man with a Hitler-moustache as shown on the photograph could not go in Budapest on the street, everybody would have a good laugh at him, even in a right radical demonstration this would be so, and for carneval it would show a bad taste (similar as prince Harry from UK did show one time) and would not be interesting for anybody. Moreover, I have not heard anything about a right radical demonstration since the Orban government is in power, also not in left or liberal newspapers. Thus, I doubt that the photograph was made from a right radical demonstration under the Orban government. May be from the time of postcommunistic governments, when right radical demonstrations were frequent. But even then there was no pro-Hitler right-radical demonstration and I have never seen young Hungarian people with Hitler-moustache in Budapest. The second photograph shows a right-radical rally of the Hungarian guards and the place is too seen, the Hősek tere in Budapest. But this was in 2007 (!!), when the postcommunist government was in power, three years before FIDESZ was elected. Why was this picture not shown to show the danger for the Hungarian democracy under the postcommunist-"liberal" government ? Under the Orban government the Hungarian guardian are forbidden, like under the last two years postcommunist government of Bajnai. Also in the text the timing is not so good. If the Jewish Gáspár Miklós was molested by a group in the uniform of the Hungarian guards one year ago (the article was written in 2010, that means in 2009), then even this was after the Hungarian guards and their uniform were forbidden and it was under the postcommunist government before the FIDESZ came to power. Again the question, why was this not reported as a danger for the democracy in the time of the postcommunistic government, when it happened ?.
Already in the heading of the article is written that Budapest is today the centre of a new antisemitismus. My only comment to this is that fortunately, the antisemitismus in Germany is not wider distributed than in the most European countries, but unfortunately, it is wider distributed than in Hungary. Antisemitismus does not fit to the Hungarian mentality. The Hungarians are proud, but do not like any kind of rassismus, including antisemitismus. The text is even not historically correct. Before the Germans occupied Hungary, Jews were not transported in concentration camps. As the Germans occupied Hungary, the antisemitic "heimischen Pfeilkreuzler" indeed transported Hungarian Jews" to German concentration camps. But a German newspaper should also write that the largest part of the "heimischen" Hungarian Pfeilkreuzler were Donauschwaben, Germans. And this was one of the main reasons, why after the war many, mainly innocent Germans (Donauschwaben) were ousted from Hugnary.
Terrible, the sentence "News from the real Budapest, the real Hungary, of the past months" that means, in 2010, after the victory of the FIDESZ and Orban. Neofaschists hold up Roma families, killed in series of murder Roma peoples. As German I am ashamed about the communist/postcommunist style of this anti-Hungarian propaganda, it goes even beyond the postcommunist propaganda. Really six Roma were killed and all Hungarians from very left to very right condemned this crime, as the Germans condemned when criminals burned down in Germany a flat with foreigners killing by this even children. But this murdering of Roma was not in the past months(after the victory of the FIDESZ), but much earlier, during the time of the postcommunist government. Under the Orban governments these murderers are in jail. Why this crime was not condemned in that time, when it happened, as the postcommunist-"liberal" government was in power ? I do not say that they were guilty for this terrible crime, but still fewer guilty is a government that came 3-4 years later to power. That would be the same as we would say that the present center–right government in Germany is guilty for killing of foreigners some years ago, only because it is not a postcomununist, center-right government.
In the same paragraph, in which the communist Hungary was named (in positive sense) as the "most cheerful barrack of the Eastern Block" is in the end as negative sign mentioned that Budapest has now got with Diplomingeneur István Tarlós a mayor from the right political group. And it was ask: What happened in Budapest ? In the most cheerful barrack were killed in communist time more anticommunists, mainly young peoples than in the GDR, among them the legal Prime Minister Imre Nagy. For the Spiegel this was the positive side of the life in Budapest. The Hungarians do not remember for this time as cheerful, but as the time of occupation and suppression by the communists and when somewhat was cheerful, then the Hungarians with their very nice mentality. With respect to Tarlós. He belongs to no party. He was a member of the left-liberal SZDSZ and left this party together with nearly all liberal members of the SZDSZ as it changed into a satellite party of the Hungarian socialists from the MSZP. He was several time elected as mayor of a Budapest III. district in the time as the liberal Demsky in coalition with the postcommunists was mayor of Budapest, and the peoples of this district were very satisfied with his communal politics. As mayor of Budapest he works together with the same peoples that have worked together with Demsky, if they are good experts, equal to which party they belong. Seemingly for the author Erich Follath everybody is a rightist, who is not a member of the postcommunistic MSZP. Has he studied journalism in the former GDR ? Erich Follath could find a lot about Tarlós, if he looks in Wikipedia of Google about Tarlós. It is interesting to write what is written there, because this does not belong to right-radical media: "He then, supported by SZDSZ and FIDESZ, became Budapest District III Mayor in 1990.Tarlós left SZDSZ because of mental and moral differences in the summer of 1994. Tarlós couldn't accept the radical change in directions and principles of the party within the short period of its existence. He is an independent politician since then. As independent he had been continually reelected with great majority as Mayor in Budapest District III in 1994, 1998 and 2002. Tarlós made it to establish functioning nexus with the liberal and socialist fraction within the Municipality of his district. The General Assembly regularly passed Tarlós's Budget Plan and Budget Report without abstention and black ball." If Erich Follath had looked in Google Wikipedia about Tarlós, then he could easily answer his question to the election of Tarlós as Mayor of Budapest: "Was ist los in Budapest". the people of Budaept have elected the most suitable candidate in a free election.
In the article a lot is written about the Hungarian antisemitismus. It is not directly written that the FIDESZ is antisemitic, the more as one of the leading FIDESZ politicians is Jewish, but typical postcommunistic attacks against Orban who did not delimit from the antisemitic Jobbik party, the consent of the FIDESZ with the Jobbik. But the article forgot to mention that during the communal election in the autumn was one, even successful coalition of the Jobbik, but not between the FIDESZ and Jobbik, but between the postcommunistic MSZP and the right radical Jobbik in Esztergom. It is typical for postcommunists to warn for the danger of a cooperation between democratic center-conservative parties with right radicals, whereas they do it or work together with left radical parties. The cooperation between communists and right radicals has tradition, as all Polish people know from the Hitler-Stalin (Molotov-Ribbentrop) pact which arranged the division of Poland between the fascistic Germany and the communistic Soviet Union in a secrete protocol leading to the joint war against Poland from the east and from the west. The terrible crimes of Katyn stands for the aggression of the communists and the terrible war crimes of the Germans for the aggression of the fascists. Both wanted to destroy the Polish elite and intellectuals, but fortunately, both basically failed.
The FIDESZ is designated as a right-conservative party, but it is a "Volkspartei" in German sense or a center-right party as Applebaum wrote, like the German CDU/CSU. In such a Volkspartei are several wings, but the right wing in the FIDEZ is somewhat weaker than in the CDU/CSU because of the existence of the right-conservative Jobbik with a right radical wing and the conservative MDF. The leading reform communists, like Pozsgai, are today member of the FIDESZ (or not more engaged in politics), and would surely not be members in a right-conservative party. The communist hardliners are members of the Hungarian socialists from the MSZP Leading real liberal politicians of the former SZDSZ, like Tölgyessy and many other former members of the SZDSZ, as this party was still a real liberal party, got later members of the FIDESZ. Thus, the FIDESZ has a left wing, a liberal wing and a center-right-Christian-Democratic wing, which however, acts as an independent party in close alliance with the FIDESZ. This "Volkspartei" character, and the unbelievable corruption of the incompetent postcommunistic-"liberal" government explains the 2/3 majority of the FIDESZ in the last election.
The relation of the Magyar Hungarians to the Jewish Hungarians is quite different from that what is written in the Spiegel article. I do not know Hungarian Jewish people which are afraid to live in Hungary and do not feel at home in Hungary, because they are Jews. Quite in the contrast. As I was guest professor in Flagstaff, I met a Hungarian Jewish lady who explained me that she left Hungary together with her parents during the Soviet invasion in 1956, and that she will sent her daughter to Budapest for working there to learn better the Hungarian language (the knowledge of which will not bring any advantage in the USA). I had a very good friend from Israel (who unfortunately died some years ago), who was born in Hungary and was a member of the antifascist resistance. He came very often to Budapest and had here many friends. He always said that he has two homelands, Israel and Hungary. On the other side, the Hungarians admire their famous Jewish scientists, artists, writers as famous Hungarians. They like (me too) the operettas of Kálman Imre. I have always seen in this a very good integration. It is simply not true that right radicals and antisemites dominates now in Hungary and the old vices of the Hungarians, such as their mendacity prosper in Hungary, like always. (Post)communists were also lying in other countries, but the devastating defeat of the postcommunists in Hungary in the last election was a clear sign that the Hungarians do not like liars in power. After Gyurcsány in his above mentioned speech confirmed that the Hungarian postcommunists are liars, they could even not deny this fact later. The positive aspect of this speech was, that even the Hungarian postcommunists are ashamed about this fact as Gyurcsány stated in his speech, there is no result of his government about which they could be proud.
The reason, why I name the MSZP not as Hungarian socialists, but as postcommunistic party is that a socialdemocratic/socialistic party in a western democratic state has in general a higher priority of a social-oriented program than in a conservative or liberal party. Thus, the socialdemocrates are a positive part of a democratic state. The reason why a socialdemocratic/socialist government often does not bring better, but often worse social results than a centre-right government is that they often make a bad economic politics. And if the government has not enough money because of a bad economic politics, then a good social program will not help too much. In the case of the Hungarian MSZP, the politics of the MSZP-SZDSZ governments was clearly unsocial. During the Gyurcsány government, a multibillionaire (Gyurcány) was chief of the MSZP and prime minister. Several ministers and leading politicians of the MSZP were multibillionaires and this in a country, in which the life standard is far below the Germany life standard. And all these politicians were during the communism already in high functions in the communist party or in the communist youth organization. As Gyurcsány get prime minister, in the MSZP newspaper was a question who would be prime minister, if we had not the changes in 1989. And the proud answer was: Gyurcsány. This should show, how good he is, but really it showed that he belong to the old system as the majority of the leading MSZP members. Perhaps after the strong defeat the newly elected new leadership will move the MSZP in direction of a socialdemocratic/socialist party.