Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- [The following bit of revisionist apologetics is typical of much of Eastern Europe in the era of a revitalized, expansionist NATO. >From Latvia to Hungary and from Croatia to Estonia, NATO members and candidates - seemingly as a matter of course and design - are now celebrating their World War II Axis collaborationist regimes, rewriting their text books to make heroes out of villains, inciting anti-foreigner and irredentist sentiments among the populace, and clamoring for the return of territory redistributed after the end of the war. The government of Hungary, one of the first three members inducted in NATO's first round of expansion, is even promoting a sort of pan-Magyarism by granting passports and presumed citizenship rights to ethnic Hungarians living in Yugoslavia, Romania, Slovakia and elsewhere. How this will play out in the future dismemberment of what's left of Yugoslavia as well as in Romania and elsewhere seems obvious. We've alread seen Hungarian officials refuse to apologize for the death camps their allegedly non-fascist government ran in the Vojvodina area of Yugoslavia in World War II. In fact they've attempted to justify their role in the extermination of Serbs, Jews and Roma there. Anyone unconvinced about the nature of the nazi-collaborationist, clerico-fascist regime in Budapest in the 1930s and 1940s only has to look up information on Admiral Horthy and the Arrow Cross Party on the Internet and come to their own conclusions. If this is the New World Order, it bears frightening resemblances to the old.] The Budapest Sun August 30, 2001 - Volume IX, Issue 35 Lobbying groups reject 'fascist era' label By Gerson Perry THE unearthing and resurrection of a statue to Greater Hungary by Viktor Orbán's Government and an Associated Press report on the incident under the headline Fascist-Era Statue Raised in Hungary, has sparked an outcry by Hungarian lobbying groups. The Hungarian Lobby, a political and cultural action group, bombarded the executive editor of the Associated Press Jon Wolman with hundreds of e-mails and letters demanding a correction to the article that suggested the statue was raised during Hungary's Fascist era. Dr F L Jajczay, a member of the Presidential Board of the Hungarian National World Council, said, "The editor, who approved the release of this news item, should review the definition of Fascism/Fascist and the historical facts about the political and social system in Hungary between the two World Wars. This news item is a very nice example of inciting hatred against an identifiable group." Fascism, according to Webster's New World Dictionary, "is a system of government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible oppression of opposition, belligerent nationalism, racism and militarism." László Papp suggested fellow Hungarian Lobby members write to the AP along these lines: "May I respectfully suggest you send your reporter or correspondent back to History Class 101. "His concept and information on a 'Fascist Hungary' is totally and shamefully wrong. Yes, there was a Fascist regime in Hungary, but not in 1934, instead in 1944 after Germany occupied the country." Papp added, "The country had a conservative rightist majority in the democratically elected Parliament in 1934 with leftist minority, including Social-Democrats, and some other liberal parties. "So did and do other countries. You would not characterize the Bush administration 'Fascist' for its conservative ideology? Or do you? A correction and apology is in order." Another lobby member, writing in a similar vein said that, "our weak anti-Jewish laws angered Hitler, but actual deportations took place only after the occupation of Hungary... More than 200,000 thousand Jews were saved in the 'Last island of freedom in Europe, east of the Pyrenees'." Jajczay said, "As far as the Hungarians hating Trianon and the revisionism is concerned, there is a question for you: If after a lost war Great Britain would have lost - without a plebiscite - Scotland to Norway, York to Denmark, Kent to Netherlands and Cornwall to France, the United States would have similarly lost New Mexico and Texas to Mexico, Florida to Cuba, New York to Canada. What would have been the reaction of the English and American people and governments?" The Associated Press has yet to respond - or offer a correction - to its August 12 article. Copyright 2001 * The Budapest Sun * All Rights Reserved __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! 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