Shriram Krishnamurthi on Nostr: So it wasn't like HU had been a proper independent democracy that briefly lost ...

So it wasn't like HU had been a proper independent democracy that briefly lost independence. Rather, being on the Pannonian plains, it had been invaded from all directions: Mongols, Ottomans, Habsburgs, Nazis, Soviets. So it was like a fledgling trying out figure out what it *meant* to take wing. ↵