Bosnyak (pic) was a Hungarian teacher who before WWII published six books on Hungary's Jewish problem, founded the ZsidoKutato Intezet (Institute for Studying the Jews) and wrote innumerable newpaper antisemitic articles. After the war he was condemned in absentia to be hanged, and he went to live in hiding with his wife's parents in Transylvania. But he could not keep quiet and wrote letters to foreign personalities about the Romanian authorities repression of the Hungarian population. His secret reports were discovered by the Securitate and he was condemned to forced labor in the Black Sea channel project. After an year the Romanians delivered him to the Hungarian brother Socialist regime.Now comes the interesting part. The Hungarian Communist Party was then preparing the mass repression of the Jewish population, following Stalin's example. They arrested the HIAS people (the American Assistance Organization that maintained so many poor Jewish families), the leaders of the local Jewish community and anyone connected to the Zionist movement. The star culprit was to be Peter Gabor (ne Eizenberger Benjamin), the hated Secret Service's Director General. But the Communist Party leadership was composed by ethnic Jews, and they felt spiritually inhibited to mount a credible antisemitic show trial. The deportation and extermination in Auschwitz of Hungarian Jewry was too fresh in their memories. So they asked Bosnyak, a bona fide antisemite, to supply ideas and to write the material. Bosnyak wrote a 300 page proposal, including the creation of „Államvédelmi Hatóság Tudományos Kutató Intézetének” (The Institute for Scientific Research for the Protection of the State).
Then, unexpectedly, Joseph Stalin died or was killed by his collegues before he could implement his evil plans. Peter was given a job as librarian and the HIAS people allowed to make aliyah. Now there was no more need of the creative energies of Bosnyak and he disappeared. Only now we learn that his death sentence was carried out and he was hanged in the prison yard at 7.00 AM on October 4th., 1952. Hungary is no America, there are no tall L-shaped wooden structures, but a simple 2.5 m post. The pic shows the hanging of Szalasy, the leader of the Hungarian Arrow Fascist Party.
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No great loss.
One of the hardest parts of living in a totalitarian regime, especially if you are a Party member, is following the twists and turns of the Party line - one week the Germans are your enemies who must be denounced, then the Hitler-Stalin pact is signed and they are your friends who must be praised. Woe unto you if you don't get the memo and are not in synch with the proper line.
The amazing thing is that so many Western useful idiots were completely taken in by this stuff and did not see that the low level Party members and citizens were not spontaneously giving their heartfelt views (which just happened to change from week to week) but were spouting what they hoped and prayed was the correct party line this week in fear of their very lives if they got it wrong. From this week's NYT:
"When Deng Xiaoping made a landmark visit to the United States in 1979, he was seated near the actress Shirley MacLaine. .[who] told Deng rhapsodically about a visit to China during the Cultural Revolution. She described meeting a scholar who had been sent to toil in the countryside but spoke glowingly about the joys of manual labor and the terrific opportunity to learn from peasants. Deng growled: “He was lying.”
I must give the Communists credit - while the Americans were all to willing to pardon former Nazis (aside from a handful of top figures at Nuremberg) or even put them in our service, the Communists for the most part gave them what they richly deserved - a noose around the neck. This was one of the few good things that they did, and this more or less by accident in the midst of their murderous rampages on all sectors of society.
K
Eastern European Communist parties had been almost exterminated by the Fascists. In Hungary only those who took refuge in the Soviet Union remained.
Szalasy's gallows is not high enough to break the neck. On such a gallows the victim meets a slow and painful death by suffocation. Szalasy deserved no better. Really what they should have done is what the Americans did at Dachau - put a gun in the hands of his victims (those still alive) and let them take justice.
K
Hungary is a thousand years old well established State, where the State holds the monopoly of violence and retribution. As in East and West Germany, the "little Nazis" were left unmolested and incorporated in masse to the post war regime.
Okay so no bad words spoken about the Jewish apparatchiks of the Communist Parties or the HEAD of the hated secret service, but all comments are against the only Nazi in the story. Got it. And then you wonder why Kevin MacDonald acolytes exist?
And I'm philosemitic.
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