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1988
Hungary
Antisemitism

First Skinhead Demonstration

On 15 March 1988, approximately 30 skinheads marched from Deák Square to the Petőfi statue in Budapest, accompanied by a police escort. The skinhead scene, which emerged amid economic decline, combined nationalism with anti-communism and increasingly singled out Roma, Jews, punks, and foreign workers as scapegoats. The demonstration was the first clear sign of the emergence of far-right youth at the twilight of the Kádár era.

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