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Originally Posted by Didymus Much
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You're right, but not completely.
Joining to Austria was very bad idea.
Understanding the cause why we did this is not easy. Until 1867 we were Free.
The austrians always wanted to conquer us, they wanted to build an empire, conquiring smaller neightbour countries such as we.
We always forced to fight against them, defending our independency, our freedom. We had to revolt, protecting our own country, the Freedom.
We revolted in 1703 (Rákóczy), 1848.
After these, after realizing, that Austrians cannot conquer us with force, they tried to use another method to do this.
In the second half of 19th century they started to sophisticate our past, our history. They started to give us to believe that we are insignificant, little country, weak and small.
They sophisticate our history books, and unfortunately hungarians started to believe that we need Austrians to develope and modernize our country.
Then in 1867 we made federal with them, and we created the Austrian-Hungarian Empire with them.
But we never were equals. They ruled us, their empire Franz Joseph gave us prime ministers from his followers.
In this empire, we never made decision, the Austrians ruled. This was their empire, not ours.
This is why we took the wrong side in the first world war.
After this war, the Empire was destroyed. Then in 1920, in Trianon, the Entente nations sliced us, and we loosed 2/3 of our territory and much of our people.
So these were not our fault.
Austrians did everything. And they failed.
Since then, since Trianon, we couldn't rise again.
After Austrians, we had to suffer from the Russins and communist rule.
But read about, what we did in 23th of October 1956.
This day, we could show to the world, that we are living, and we are still brave to defend our Freedom.
And if you allow me to show something.
Search and read about the Battle of Pressburg, our great victory in 907.
Eger - 1552
Our hero, Szondi György, Drégely, 1552.
Our great King, Matthew against turkeys in Kenyérmező 1479,
one of our greatest battle leader Hunyadi János.
And my favorite great King 4th Béla, how he vanquished the mongols and raised our country from the death.
Finally, I sincerely respect America, too. You won both of the World wars, that was great. Your first presidents were great, too, I don't know them too much, but I think they were true christians(am I right? I don't know.)
They founded very great country.
Like us, you always respected the Freedom and independency.
I hope, God will bless you in the future too, as He did until now.