@IncHulk @aronkvh @neverpanic @Techaltar wow, I have learned something - thanks!

Giving voting rights to your own citizens who live abroad is a far stretch from this. I wonder to what degree eventually reclaiming that territory, as Orban was pushing for in Ukraine, was a part of this policy. Visiting the national museum in Budapest, I got a small sense of how traumatizing the first half of the 20th century must have been for Hungarian identity.

@oddhack @IncHulk @aronkvh @neverpanic @Techaltar I visited the Budapest city museum (I think) 30 years ago, and I remember the exhibition explaining how, after that loss of big parts of the country, the capital city was like a huge head sitting on a too small body.

Still, the most vivid memory I retained was how, at some point long ago, a medieval Pope decided to excommunicate the Hungarians for some reason or other. Not wanting to be outdone, the Hungarians in turn excommunicated the Pope. 💪