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I've always admired Hungary and Hungarians. Very prodigious people. Neumann, Erdős, Teller, Szilard, Grove, Simonyi. Is there a country that breeds more geniuses per capita? How comes Hungary's political situation came to this?

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moscow invaded them after WW2 and caused their power class to rot.

Before that, there was already a pattern of Hungary regularly rebelling at the reformist movement in the Austria-Hungary empire.

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