Hungary ‘manipulating history’ with national origins institute

It makes you wonder if the same sort of thing happens in other countries.

I strongly object to this biased article. The institute referred to is part of a network of institutes, such as the Academy of Sciences, that accepts that Hungarian is a Finno-Ugric language, but the people are not a 'Finno-Ugric' people. The MKI has done very good work, such as publishing the findings of Russian archaeologists of Magyar graves found in Russia, which correspond with those from the ninth and tenth centuries in Hungary. As the 10th C is my area of study, I follow the MKI closely, as I do the Academy, and have found no indication of 'Turanism', which was the leading pattern of thought in the 19th C, both on the Left and the Right. I have found as a Hungarian, that when English or American people study their pasts, they are considered 'patriotic'. When Poles or Hungarians do the same, they are thought of as 'nationalists'. Is this a hint of racism? It is a sad fact that certain views are still banned in academe in Hungary. Instead of misleading readers, I would suggest you point out that some of their work -- yes, including distant links to the Huns -- have been published in the Science Report of the Journal Nature. You might have heard of it. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-53105-5 Also, PLOS ONE (A fascist journal, surely?) published work they did. Oh, but they regularly publish work done by Oxford and Cambridge Scientists. Another article on PLOS ONE, by a team led by Dr Suzanne Hackenbeck, also dared to analyse the Huns' (and Romans' diet) and found they had a varied diet, contrary to popular expectations. So, is Dr Hackenbeck a nationalist, too? Which nationalism does she subscribe to? Is she a British Turanist, perhaps? So please, let's stick to science and scholarship and leave the politics to others. Chris Szabo University of Birmingham