Sum thread. Shame it'll go nowhere. Not only are we talking about a country in which the civnat government has held its supermajority for a third consecutive term, and in which a disorganized and squabbling "left"-wing has been decisively crushed YET AGAIN, but the 3 Hungarians in here are promulgating their fantasies about spreading warmed-over Stalinism among the populace.
The facts on the ground are that Communism is going precisely nowhere in Hungary for three reasons:
1. The label is utterly toxic because the Soviets were correctly seen as a foreign occupying power.
2. There is no party that can challenge FIDESZ from the left. The liberals (LMP, DK, Együtt, LMP, etc. pp.) are busy re-enacting Game of Thrones over the 20% of voter share they have left, and the hard-left Munkáspárt got 1% of the vote - and that with Thürmer rhetorically embracing xenophobic Nazbolism.
3. This might be hard to picture for a Westerner, but identifying as a Communist in public (esp. ostentatiously, by waving red flags and wearing the Hammer & Sickle) can legit get you beat up. While it's not as controversial as displaying the Swastika in Germany, it's comparable. The only people in this country claiming the label of "Communist" for themselves are scrawny edgelords like , , . They'll deny it, but that's what they are. They exhibit an utterly unserious and unreflective approach to Socialism that is guaranteed to never-ever bear fruit.
Saying that you want the Rákosi-flag back or that you're against a Communist author because his writing had "the element of humanism" is as edgy and contrarian as dressing up in an SS uniform and walking through the streets of Berlin, parading an effigy of a hanged Jew in front of you, warning of the the next Holocaust.
