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1988
Hungary
Antisemitism

First Skinhead Demonstration

On 15 March 1988, around 30 organised skinheads marched from Deák Square to the Petőfi statue in Budapest, accompanied by heavily armed police. Emerging amid economic decline, the skinhead scene blended nationalism and anti-communism, increasingly directing hostility toward Roma, Jews, punks, and foreign workers. The demonstration marked the public arrival of far-right youth mobilisation in late-communist Hungary.

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