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 == Communism vs. Socialism In Hungary == 

 Yes, you are right that socialism and communism are not the same. However, the MSZP and SZDSZ parties are, while officially socialist in nature, actually communist if you look at who their leaders are major proponents are. It is the same dirty communist bastards who rode Hungary into the ground and terrorized the populace before '89. Take Medgyessy for example. You cannot deny that he is and while in office was a hard-line communist, even if an idiotic one with little sense of reality.  

 On the same note, look at how even to this very day, people such as Lovas Istvan are being persecuted for their conservative views. Every Hungarian I know insists that Lovas is too extreme, too prejudiced, too right wing. Why? Because he dares to comment on the corruption and filth eating away at our once-great nation? Because he dares to stand up for the mostly Catholic conservative groups that have suffered the most during the communist years? Anyway, that isn't the point. The point is that whil the SZDSZ and MSZP are officially ""only"" socialist, they are the de facto communist parties today. Especially SZDSZ, there is no way you can deny that, unless of course, you are an SZDSZ supporter. By the way, you know what Evelyn Waugh said about socialism, right? I can only repeat his words: ""FUCK SOCIALISM!"" 

 P.S.: I do like socialism as they have it in Austria. That form of civic socialism works. But the hard-line, exploitative, denigrating socialism that is pushed on by such scum as Gyurcsany and his cronies is despicable. I will celebrate the day when the very last one of the old communist guard has died and is six feet under. Only then can the idiotic Hungarian masses, the plebeians, pull their heads out of the sand and see the light of day. I will wait..."