In The '30s And '40s, The Search For Hungarian National Identity Led Famously To An Alliance With Hitler And The Destruction Of More Than A Half Million Of The Nation's Jews. And Here We Are Now, More Than 70 Years Later, Witnessing A Resurgence Of Xenophobia And Authoritarianism, And Not Just In Eastern Europe.

-Susan Faludi

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In The '30s And '40s, The Search

Susan Faludi

In The '30s And '40s, The Search For Hungarian National Identity Led Famously To An Alliance With Hitler And The Destruction Of More Than A Half Million Of The Nation's Jews. And Here We Are Now, More Than 70 Years Later, Witnessing A Resurgence Of Xenophobia And Authoritarianism, And Not Just In Eastern Europe.

Topic

Xenophobia

Years

Europe

Instead Of Confronting Its Real And Difficult Problems And Grappling Honestly With A Dark Past, Hungary Embraced A Reactionary Government And A Self-pitying Image Of Itself As The Victimized Nation, And Went Looking For Scapegoats In The Roma, Jews, And, Most Recently, Syrian Migrants.

Real

Dark

Past