Daily Archives: April 7, 2014

And so most of the Hungarian electorate did yesterday. The BBC describes the situation and the results HERE. Some papers blame the Socialist’s ineptitude. No matter. It’s four more years for Mr. Orban and his “change Hungary machine.”

Dumbfounded, I asked a Hungarian friend to explain the result. He did. And so, to be sure I understood, I asked “So Hungarians (not all of course) are looking to Mr. Orban as Russians look to Mr. Putin, a hero who is protecting Hungary from the world? Yes! My friend replied, that’s it, they need a hero. But will this help Hungary get out of the “unhappiest” country category anytime soon?

Yet another reason to say that this world, these Shadowlands, are not our home, we’re just passing thru heading to that which is Real.

From The Economist:

“We don’t want to be Russians, we want to be Ukrainians,” he said, sitting in a room of brightly coloured bunk-beds. He and his wife had moved to Crimea in 1992 from Uzbekistan, where their parents had been sent during Stalin’s deportation of the Crimean Tatars in 1944. They worked in construction and got on well with the local Russians. Then the Russian soldiers took over last month. “Now Russians are squabbling over how they will divide up the houses of their Tatar neighbours,” said Kerim’s 21-year-old son. “Even those who are still there.”

I’ve heard this before. It sounds a bit like ethnic cleansing.

Read the complete blog post HERE.