Jobbik Celebrates the 94th Anniversary of Hero Horthy’s March Into Budapest

Politics.Hu
November 18, 2013

Miklos Horthy
Miklos Horthy

The radical nationalist Jobbik party commemorated in Budapest on Sunday the 94th anniversary of the entry to the capital of Hungary’s interwar regent Miklos Horthy.

Horthy, mounted on a white horse, led his forces into Budapest on November 16, after the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 had been overthrown.

Speakers at the demonstration called for the setting up of an equestrian statue of Horthy in Szent Gellert Square.

The commemoration was attended by 250-300 demonstrators, including uniformed activists of the New National Guard, who were received in the square by about fifty counter-demonstrators.

The Socialist party condemned the demonstration in a statement sent to MTI on Sunday, noting that Horthy’s regency was marked by the atrocities of the White Terror, anti-Semitism and the country’s alliance with Nazi Germany.