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by Majestic121 988 days ago
There is something about Hungary and extremely smart people : https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
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Just have to leave the country to be successful, or worse, to not get killed by the same people what will be the first to boast about your achievements abroad.
Some people are proud of where other people were born, regardless of where these other people work.

Some people are proud of where other people work, regardless of where these other people were born.

These are very different views of the world /shrug

Well, what do you expect?

In his novel Budapest, the Brazilian novelist Chico Buarque writes that Hungarian “is rumored to be the only tongue in the world the devil respects.”

Ha, ha; this is the ultimate compliment!
The language and the misery? :)
The Hungarian ability to produce world-class scientists went considerably down after the Holocaust.