Hungary for a new adventure – A soupçon of the 20th century – part 2

Maybe not better red than… The Second World War had ended. Hungary had signed the 1947 Treaty of Paris returning it to its pre-1938 borders. Unlike Yugoslavia where Tito’s Partisans had ruled the day, the Soviet Army played a major role …

Hungary for a new adventure – A soupçon of the 20th century

I ended the previous post when, some 18 months after the armistice that brought World War I to its close, Hungary signed the Treaty of Trianon that left it not only considerably smaller in both area and population but substantially …

Hungary for a new adventure – The historical appetizer – part 3

Part two of this brief overview of Hungarian history ended with Lajos Kossuth ascending to a position of national leadership as an element of the Hungarian War for Independence. Part three will take us up to the end of the …