the Headquarter of the Arrow Cross Party, today the House of Terror

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The House of Terror museum in Budapest, “which restricts the Holocaust to a couple of rooms while devoting the rest of its ample space to communist crimes,”⁷⁵ meticulously lists Jews among the communist perpetrators but not among the victims of the Stalinist system.⁷⁶

For Randolph Braham, the House of Terror attempts to turn [the Third Reich’s] last ally into its last victim,⁷⁷ an attempt furthered in 2014 with the inauguration of Budapest’s Memorial to the Victims of the German Invasion depicting Hungary as [its] victim, but ignoring Hungary’s responsibility and collaboration with the [Third Reich] in exterminating Jews.⁷⁸

As I have shown elsewhere, this memorial is an amalgam between Deflective Negationism, Double Genocide and Holocaust Obfuscation.⁷⁹

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The narration of its permanent exhibition draws no distinction between the policies of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party, which held power from October 1944 to April 1945, and the [people’s republic], which held power between 1948 and 1989.

By linking the reign of terror carried out under Hungary’s brand of [fascism] with the subsequent terror experienced under Communism, this museum drew a parallel between the two régimes and, what’s more, declared a continuity between the two kinds of terror.

With this, it aligned itself with that controversial, revisionist school of historical thought that regards the human devastation wreaked by these two types of dictatorship, and the régimes themselves, as of essentially the same nature.

Since the history of Communism is depicted only in part, the exhibit hardly can be called comprehensive. Not that this was the intention. As the museum director herself publicly has stressed, the institution aims to display terror in all its sensational aspects, to invite visitors to an historical “happening”.

The House of Terror creates a historical narrative that paints a picture of Hungarians as the victims of both Nazism and Communism. In this narrative, the Communist terror persists well beyond the actual fall of Communism — if not to this very day

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Oh, and a funny thing: Karl Marx’s use of the phrase ‘House of Terror’ actually predates the anticommunists’ use of it, only he used it to refer to a kind of workhouse wherein the capitalists expected the poor to work for them for about one dozen hours a day.