Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:26:08 +0200Hero or traitor? - statue of a controversial Hungarian Prime Minister unveiled, but not in Budapest.https://english.radio.cz/hero-or-traitor-statue-a-controversial-hungarian-prime-minister-unveiled-not-8085305© 2026 Radio Prague International Count Pal Teleki, was prime minister of Hungary twice - but has never had a statue - until now. And even now it is controversial, because of Teleki's role in the Second World War. His supporters point to the tens of thousands of Polish refugees whose lives he helped save during the war. His detractors say he's the prime minister who submitted anti-Jewish acts to the Hungarian parliament in pre-war Hungary. Teleki committed suicide in 1941 and now a statue has been erected in a rural town. Gyorgi Jakobi has more. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 Hero or traitor? - statue of a controversial Hungarian Prime Minister unveiled, but not in Budapest. https://english.radio.cz/hero-or-traitor-statue-a-controversial-hungarian-prime-minister-unveiled-not-8085305 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9