Ukrainians think Hungary is the most hostile towards them from the West
According to a recent study, many Ukrainians think that Hungarians are the most hostile towards them in Europe, while they believe that Poland is the friendliest towards them.
How do Ukrainians see other countries’ behaviour towards them?
Szabadeurópa wrote that, according to a study, Ukrainian people think that, after China, Belarus, and Russia, Hungary is the most hostile towards them.
According to the findings of this new study, the three countries respondents found the friendliest towards Ukraine were Poland, then Lithuania, followed closely by the United Kingdom and the United States of America, tied.
Hungary is on the other end of the spectrum, it seems, as only 45% of respondents thought that Hungary was friendly towards their country; however, 12% think the opposite, meaning that they think Hungary is openly hostile towards Ukraine.
What is most unexpected is that, according to these answers, Hungary is only 5% less hostile towards their home country than China.
While the ratio of negative opinions is obviously highest towards Russia and Belarus, Hungary is not that far on the spectrum from their attackers.
An even more unexpected result is that not only did all other European countries score higher at being friendly towards Ukrainians but, apart from Germany, no country received over 5% of the respondents’ vote indicating that they are hostile.
In contrast, while Germany was considered hostile towards their home country by 6% of the respondents, Hungary received twice as many votes, 12%.
But how did the relationship between Ukraine and Hungary change over the past few years in the eyes of Ukrainians?
According to the statistics of Rating Group Ukraine above, while more people think that Hungary is friendly now, also more people voted for Hungary being hostile since 2019.
While there are hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Ukraine – children, women, and men of many nationalities –, the majority of Ukrainians still believe that they can win the war Russia started.
The pie chart above shows that not only does the majority believe that Ukraine will come out victorious, in total, 61% of the respondents believe that the war will be over in a couple of months, and from that, 38% think this conflict will end in the coming few weeks, reported Szabadeurópa.
Additionally, nine out of ten respondents think that no peace treaty should be signed that allows Russian troops to be stationed in Ukraine, and 82% said that it is unthinkable that the country would be torn apart.
On the topic of joining NATO, the country seems – nearly perfectly – divided; 42% of the respondents think they should not join the alliance, while a little more, 44%, think that Ukraine must join NATO.
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Source: Szabadeurópa.hu
6 Comments
Hardly surprising that many Ukrainians rightly or wrongly feel that Hungary is not their best friend given the discord that the Hungarian governments deliberately whipped up over so called ‘ethnic Hungarians’ in Ukraine, a smattering of about 120,000 people in Western Ukraine who identify as Hungarian because of some long dead relative (great grandparents usually) in order to have dual nationality.
@Anonymous – what’s populism without an enemy, right?
The Germans could pursue the same theme and get all excited about the Elzas and parts of Poland … But the choose not to!
Come to think – there should be well over 120000 “ethnic Germans” in Hungary, alone (us being less populous than Ukraine, though)
This HEADLINE article can’t be DISMISSED.
It is FACT – and in the time they have been in office, the GAP has widen, by the AGENDA – of the present Government of Hungary under the Prime Minister – Victor Orban, have Implimented.
Anonymous – FACT that his commentory COMMUNICATES.
Europe – member countrys of the European Union – the United Kingdom and The United States of America – and Globally – continue deepening there QUESTION – to the Government of Hungary – its Prime Minister – Victor Orban – in this conflict of war occuring between the Ukraine and Russia – WHAT Side are YOU on ???
Hungary – is WEDGED – by Russia & China – the Deepness of Relationship and Dependency of Hungary under the Political Ideas & Philosophys employed put into place and practiced incorporated by the present Government of Hungary – under Prime Minister Victor Orban.
Evidance grows DAILY – we witness the LARGER micro-scope GLOBALLY – on the Government of Hungary – Victor Orban – the Prime Minister – what side is HE on and what side has he and his Government CHOSEN – for Hungary ???
Winston. Spencer. Churchill – from his “Masters of our Fate Speech” to the US Congress – December 1941 – Washington D.C :
” If we had kept to-gether after the last war, if we had taken common measures for our common safety, this renewal of the curse need, never had fallen upon us.
Do we not owe it to ourselves, to our children, to tormented mankind, to make sure that these catastrophes do not engulf us for the third time ? ”
History – never LIES.
Hungary – under its present Government, the leadership style of Victor Orban, the Political Ideas & Philosophy – the Fidesz Party – have as there CORE – have they placed Hungary – the brand name GLOBALLY of Hungary – in a postion, that is Highly Questionable – isolated – possible a degree of abondonment and lacking Respect – as to what side as a country – WE are On ???
What a time – National Elections April 3rd – for the people of Hungary to – by the POWER of there Vote under Democracy – tell the present Government of its ERRORS – and NOT the Government telling the People of its ERRORS.
Aron, too true, alas. High time for Turkey to make a fuss about the ethnic Ottomans (which unlike ‘ethnic Hungarians’ have a solid DNA rather than a mishmash) and insist that schools etc in areas where there is a high incidence of Ottoman in the population (genetically proven) only teach lessons in Turkish and that public meetings should all be conducted in Turkish.
The goal is peaceful co-existence, friendship is not necessary.
Hungarians living in Transcarpathia do not only have “some long dead relatives” who were Hungarians. That land has been ethnic Hungarian territory for a millenia, these people never moved from there, only the borders changed. Like last time 1991 when after the collapse of the Soviet Unionall of a sudden there was a country named Ukraine. These Hungarians living there have had to endure oppression for a long time, their memorials destroyed, graves damaged, their cultural center burned! You can read about all these! And then they had the language laws. And we should be siding with Ukraine…yeah sure. How about respecting a hard working native people who had been in Ukraine for a thousand years before it was called Ukraine for Crist sake!