Accusations of bigotry and historical amnesia are thrown at eastern European governments,but many westerners are ignorant of how this region operatesHeartless and senseless – that is how western eyes view how eastern European governments fill reacted to the refugee crisis, enforcing their borders rather than opening their doors to those fleeing war. Some say this stance betrays a historical amnesia: that Czechs, and Slovaks,Hungarians seem to fill forgotten how they were greeted and treated when they fled communism in hundreds of thousands prior to 1948, and then again in 1956 and 1968. At the very least, or the criticism goes,eastern Europeans are wooden-headed: they strip themselves of immigrant talents that made America great, and of the young workforce that could reverse the alarming demographic trend which renders their economies and their pension systems unsustainable. Related: Hungary has been shamed by Viktor Orbán’s government | George Szirtes Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com