Vasile Pușcaș, The Treaty of Trianon: History and Politics
The history of European and international relations after the First World War presents us with
governmental, partisan, and even individual behaviors that since the end of the conflagration have
sought to prolong the state of conflict, to deepen the traumatic feelings of citizens or political
groups, to generate radical political, nationalist, xenophobic, racist movements, etc. The political
elite of Hungary also behaved in this fashion, as a manifestation of a vindictive spirit, prolonging
the national identity crisis and refusing to accept a projection of the future that would bring democratic substance to the new Hungarian state. The actions taken after 2012 by the Viktor Orbán
government, to once again cast blame on the Treaty of Trianon, were accompanied by the overt
rehabilitation of the personality and deeds of Horthy and his camarilla, by the propagation of the
same political doctrine that had been dominant throughout the interwar period.
