In the second half of the 1990s, the region experienced a rise of far right political forces. Their message is fed by historic legacies, the failure of the transition as well as anti-globalist attitudes.

As a result of Stalinist manupulation, teh fate of Jews in the Soviet Union has not been widely known in the USSR or in other countries of Eastern Europe. The publication of the study by an Israeli historian is an attempt to break this silence in Hungary.

It has been forgotten that Wermacht did not simply "fight as any other army" in World War II. Its soldiers completly robbed the occupied territories and also helped to transport millions to labour camps in Germany. Holocaust could not have been carried out without their assistance.All this was revealed by a recent exhibition in Hamburg, Germany.