My Hungarian friends are never going to forgive or forget Russia (Soviet Union) for what it did to them during the Hungarian revolution

Drandres, historical facts cut both ways. Russians/Soviets have never forgotten Hungarians for fighting along side with the Nazi German army during WWII, they still remembered the over 30 million Russians that lost their lives in WWII when they invaded Hungary in 1956....and some of these Hungarian troops that fought along side nazi german troops, were not all forced conscripts, many were volunteers...entire units of volunteers...with youngs kids in their teens, willing to give their lives while making common cause with the Nazis.

The best advise for your friends and for their Russian/Soviet opponents is to turn the page. Germans turned it already and are looking ahead.

Hungarians have been under somebody's boot for most of their history, now after the war, and most particularly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, finally they can be the masters of their own destiny, and are trying their best to govern in a democratic way. Don't spoil that with a grudge. And as for the Russians, they too are trying to be Europeans (albeit, with a significant muslim and asian population). And history is a real bitch sometimes, while we are on the subject, the worst Soviet leader was not Russian at all, it was Georgian, that was Stalin. And possibly the best leader they had was either Gorvachev or Yeltsin, both of which were Russians and did their best to extricate Russia from their Soviet past.

There is an interesting idea that professor Michael Stuermer made at a nato meeting. "Between Western Europe and Russia there are only a few dotted lines...".

Now, as for the gas problems that are brewing between Ukraine and everyone else, it can only be good for Falcon. Those gas delivery problems make Mako all the more compelling.

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