3 May 2017 1:11 am
That might be true, but isn't a little tone deaf to wear such a controversial medal to the inauguration?Cannonpointer » 03 May 2017 1:01 am » wrote:Very simple: A storied outfit that fought against Stalin - and lost - is probably going to have a deep sense of history and pride. It's highly unlikely that some deep connection to Nazism is interwoven in that heritage. The more likely reality is that they feel some connection to a previous noble house. How much ya wanna bet they were in some way connected to royalty, with the arch-conservative aim of restoring the monarchy or some such?
Cannonpointer » 03 May 2017 1:01 am » wrote:Look, I haven't gone and done the full google - I'm just saying there's six degrees of kevin bacon between barak and adolph hitler.
Well here is something that might shed some light on the issue.
It's from a Liberal website, but it has a lot of sources in it.
Apparently it is some Hungarian news outlets and scholars who are saying that the medal is identified with Miklós Horthy, the anti-Semitic World War II-era leader whose regime witnessed the murder of some 600,000 Hungarian Jews.
Did Gorka Really Wear A Medal Linked To Nazi Ally To Trump Inaugural Ball?