Zoltán Haris, a physician, for crimes against the people because, as a member of the Keleti Arcvonal Bajtársi Szövetség, he assisted the rule of the Szálasi regime.”įor those of you who are not familiar with that part of Hungarian history, Ferenc Szálasi, a former army officer, was the leader of the Arrow Cross Party. I found a small announcement in Magyar Nemzet from Mathat reads: “The people’s prosecutor’s office indicted Dr. As you will see, however, the story is not so simple. So, my initial assumption was that Zoltán Hariss or Haris-because one finds both spellings in the documents-was one of those Hungarian soldiers who fought on the territory of the Soviet Union, where he was captured by the Russians and spent a few years in a prisoner-of-war camp. Zoltán Hariss, first lieutenant, who was born in 1911, mother’s name Jolán Komor, returned to Budapest on July 18, 1947. Lázár was correct in suspecting that the Gulag story wasn’t true because one of Hungarian Spectrum’s readers subsequently found a document from the database of the Magyar Népjóléti Minisztérium (Ministry of Social Welfare) listing the names and ranks of returning Hungarian prisoners of war from Russia.
In Hungarian Free Press, György Lázár questioned that story. In my last piece on Andy Harris, I recalled that he takes every opportunity to tell the story of his father, also a doctor, who was taken to a forced labor camp in the Gulag. Now let’s get to the meat of today’s post. According to his spokesman, he and his family have been threatened by “someone who has been released awaiting trial.” The Hungarian roots of Andy Harris Andy Harris’s latest is that he set off a magnetometer that was installed in the Capitol after January 6 as a result of carrying a concealed gun yesterday afternoon.
No one would have anticipated that we have the pushback from liberals and socialists that we had then.” He continued: “this fight is not over,” and therefore he is needed.Įarlier I mentioned that during the debate over the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory, Harris taunted his Democratic colleagues, a taunt that almost ended in a fist fight. But as he said in a television interview, “Look, the situation is very different from then. Harris recently announced that he will run for a seventh term, although he promised in 2010 that he would quit politics after six.
In the same year, he endorsed Roy Moore of Alabama, Donald Trump’s choice for the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Seventeen Republicans voted against it Harris opted to abstain. In 2017, the House approved a resolution condemning QAnon. In 2016, he became the member of the Freedom Caucus. In 2014, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) named him one of the most “anti-equality” members of the House, who “go out of their way to oppose any step toward equal protection under the law or to protect LGBT Americans from violence, discrimination, and harassment.” But it’s worth taking a quick look at his political activities and positions in U.S. Until recently, Andy Harris was of interest to me only because of his close connection to and active support of the Orbán regime. He was the beneficiary of a redrawn congressional district and therefore has had an easy time winning a seat in the House ever since 2010. Congress, the lone Republican congressman from Maryland, known for his far-right views. A few days ago, I devoted a post to a great friend and supporter of Viktor Orbán in the U.S.