A bit of history Mr Trump and some fellow politicians could learn from today... (not in the least Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán).
The largest wave of refugees in Europe’s post-WWII history
were the Hungarians fleeing the country after the crushing of the revolution
and freedom fight in 1956. In the weeks after the second, overwhelming, Soviet
military intervention on November 4,1956, 200,000 Hungarians set out on foot in
the harsh winter, avoiding roads and paths, each with a single bundle on their
backs, crossing minefields and barbed wire to reach the Western and Southern
borders to Austria and Yugoslavia.
The refugees were received warmly and with
great empathy by the people on the other side of the border; authorities set up
refugee camps and Western democracies rushed to offer places for the refugees.
In the next two years, all of the Hungarians found a home in the free world,
were given free education and helped to find work.
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| Hungarian refugees at the Immigration Building at Vancouver airport on Dec. 6, 1956 |
This excerpt from a U.S. news reel is part of the Prelinger
Archives collection.
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