Well, for to see the entire busniess, we gotta start back at 1945. After the war, in 1947, the communist party had gotten into power and thus they managed to convert the place to basically a dictatorship, with the leader being a guy named Mátyás Rákosi. In short, that era was everything bad you can imagine, even if you count that we are in a country that lost a war not a decade ago then.

After the death of Stalin, Rákosi got pulled back by the soviets, and we got a guy named Imre Nagy. The thing is, he was a ctually a somewhat good guy, promising reforms and better life, which he delivered. He was still a stalinist politican back then, but still.

Then, in '55, after the NATO came, the soviets wanted to solidify their power in the area, and so they attempted to put Rákosi back to power. Problem is, the people of Hungary said no, and meant it. A revolution blazed through the country impossibly fast, and they actually forced the soviets out for some time. Then, the country attempted to become neutral, but the soviets said no, and they meant it too. The country was overrun, Imre Nagy who was elected to Prime Minister (here, the Prime Minister leads the country, not the President) ended up being executed.

The soviets saw they can't bring back Rákosi seeing how everyone hated him, so they disbanded his parts and made a new one, with the new leader being a guy named János (that's kinda the equivalent of John here) Kádár. Kádár didn't want to risk another revolution, so he promised prosperity in exchange for acceptance. That kinda worked,and Hungary was relatively well off compared to other soviet affiliated nations.

Then, in 1990, after Kádár died, the communist party saw they can't hold this gig up any longer and thus democracy was restored. We ended up having a few okay Prime Ministers, and a few very bad ones, so in the end we were barely better off than where we started, neck-deep in debts.

Then, in 2010, the party FIDESZ (Fiatal Demokraták Szövetsége-Alliance of Young Democrats) came to power. They started as a liberal party, but they became old and conservative with time. They ruled the country for the past sixteen years, and I mean it when I say ruling, as they held the two-third of the parlamental votes, effectively allowing them to make any law they wanted without needing anyone else. Their Prime Minister and the party's leader is a guy named Viktor Orbán, who is kinda half-Putin, half-Trump, and asskiss of both.

He and his party practically robbed the country. The infrastructure, social services, education, and healthcare were in ruins, and the state budget was transferred to the pockets of politicans and their private oligarchs. And they made it ridiculou all along. To show an example of it, Orbán likes soccer. And he had built a soccer stadium in practically the end of his backyard. From state budget. A stadium that can house six times more people than the amount of people who live in Orbán's hometown, where the stadium is.

They also acted as a russian trojan horse in the EU. Orbán was trying to hamper the effort to help Ukraine in the past years with everything he could, mainly vetoing (some influencers here started to call him 'Don Veto' among other nicknames). They were also doing propaganda harder than any communist ever. They made their supporters believe that the EU would send the people of this country to war, they blurred LGBTQ+ and pedophilia together, while their officals were trying to cover up that an accomplice of a pedophile got parole. Hell, Orbán even tried to outlaw PRIDE after Trump was elected. And all the while they were claiming they were 'protecting the homeland's values fro the foreign-hearted' and that they were the 'nation's side'.

I could go on and about their shit for weeks, but anyway, the deal is, that in the recent elections at 04.12., a new party, TISZA (Tisztelet és Szabadság Pártja - Party of Respect and Freedom, Tisza is also a hungarian river) had beaten them, with the party leader being the ex-husband of the FIDESZ government's ex-minister of justice. The guy is called Péter Magyar (Magyar means Hungarian in hungarian, how funny, isn't it?), and he is hellbent on impeachment, and the party's new government overall has shown extremely positive signs, while FIDESZ is collapsing.