Unexpected turn in the Polish-Hungarian relationship after scandal
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The Hungarian Defence Forces new Chief of Staff, Lt General Gábor Böröndi, made controversial remarks about the Western powers and Poland’s role in the outbreak of WWII. Afterwards, the Polish ambassador in Budapest called him out, President Katalin Novák tried to ease the tension, but the Poles were so outraged that the army chief needed to act promptly. Here is what Mr Böröndi did.
The new chief of staff’s remarks provoked a huge scandal with Hungary’s oldest friend
Böröndi said that WWII broke out because the Western allies and Poland did not hinder escalating the war into a world war in 1939, following the German invasion of Poland. The armed conflict started as a local war but was not stopped by a peace process, Böröndi said. Krisztián Ungváry, a well-known Hungarian historian and researcher of the era, said that Mr Böröndi was either insane or deliberately spread Russian falsifications. In Russia, there is a widespread view that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union should have turned jointly against the decadent West instead of fighting against each other during WWII.
Ungváry said that anybody who has ever opened a History book knows that Hitler wanted to acquire ‘Lebensraum’ (territory) for German settlers in Poland and the entire Soviet Union. Therefore, a war initiated by Germany was inevitable. Ungváry believes that Böröndi knows history but received an order from the government to bring some anarchy into NATO.
Böröndi’s remarks caused considerable diplomatic tension with Hungary’s oldest ally, Poland. The Polish ambassador in Budapest reacted harshly. Sebastian Keciek said he was shocked by Böröndi’s statement on Poland. “These words, which could be interpreted as accusing my country of complicity and escalation of a global conflict, are for us an unacceptable distortion of history and should not be uttered, especially by a representative of a close ally”, the ambassador added.
Madame President goes deeper into Victor’s Closet with not disavolving these complete lies, instead brushing them off to historians, all the while complaining endlessly about percieved slights by Ukraine on “ethnic” Hungarians who have fed at the teet of Ukraine for many generations. I suppose that we are all living in Roman lands and Italy should make a claim.
“Ungváry believes that Böröndi knows history but received an order from the government to bring some anarchy into NATO.” If that is the case it can only be because Hungary is working for Russian interests and is a phony NATO ally.
These types os statements are not stupid. They are deliberate. Borondi is not going to last long.
A bit of a pattern, here, unfortunately.
Anybody ever hear our Politicians apologize?