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Then Hungarian PM Péter Boross (1993-1994, after the death of József Antall) once told that we'd need "healthy countryside children" on state TV, a few years later he'd give the advice to right-wing leaders in an opinion piece to avoid using people from broken families, as they are mentally unstable... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
The whole thing turned into a sick farce as the Walesa camp was using the one drop rule, and saying that some of Mazowiecki's szlachta ancestors from what is now southern Lithuania and northwestern Belarus might have intermarried with a large group of Jewish converts in the region who were given szlachta status in the eighteenth century. And so the Mazowiecki people started digging up ancient parish archives and family records. Absolutely stupid and pointless - those who actually cared about stuff like that would not vote for someone like Mazowiecki, nor would they believe any evidence - they're convinced that every politician they dislike is secretly Jewish.
Already in 1990? I thought Wałęsa (& supporters) went overboard only towards his off-election...
I recall the use of that utterly disgusting rhetoric from Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Croatia, too.
A further example of this: on 31 March 1990 (that is during the election campaign for the first free elections), the daily close to the then dominant right-wing party MDF published an article titled Fathers and Sons, listing mostly Jewish members of the liberal SzDSz who had either communist or Israel-connected ancestors. (And even that with many errors, I note.) MDF activists would later spread it as campaign pamphlet. (Years later, too late, the far-rightists would break off MDF and form MIÉP.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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