Hungarian economic thinking tends to accept many now mostly outdated economic relationships as unquestionable axioms. Many of these axioms have been outdated by the fact that the one time free market capitalism has been replaced by a capitalism ruled by large global companies. Other myths have been fixed in the period of state-socialism and intractably survived in the present capitalist environment although they have little to do with present reality.

Anti-Semitism, holocaust denial and relativism have disappeared also in the official politics in East Europe. The author, the director of the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, lists many examples from the Baltic states.

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Over the past years, writer Albert Wass has become known to an ever expanding range of readers and we can say also becoming a literary-political idol. His literary standard and works can be questioned but his commitment to extreme right, hungarist political views cannot.

The study makes an attempt finding the minimum language, the least common denominator of concepts, which can be used by both antagonist political and social powers as they own on speaking about the heritage of 1956. The author believes that the field with the largest chance for consensus is the attitude towards workers councils – because workers regarded them as their own and they had protected factories and their jobs.