Hungary and other Eastern European states full of hatred of the 'outsider'....

[Magda Hassan]

All of the Eastern European countries are to varying degrees xenophobic and have an 'us' vs. 'them' mentality - sometimes down to the us being only family and close friends. I see it here in the Czech Republic where the few minorities are treated poorly and most foreigners are not welcome to most of the population. They have little history of immigrants, but that is NOT true for parts of Hungary nor for Romania.

Yes. Some one we knew from Chile in the aftermath of the coup tried to seek asylum in the Spanish embassy. He climbed the wall at night to hide during the curfew and presented himself to the ambassador but he had climbed the wall of the Romanian embassy by mistake. The confused ambassador granted refuge to the confused asylum seeker and got him safely out of the country to Romania. Romanian is easier to learn than Hungarian.

Sadly, Some of these countries had collaborationist fascist governments during WW2 and the Nazi period. Some of this viewpoint is still very much in evidence. For Hungary, the relevant past, in short is the following:
The Arrow Cross Party (Hungarian: Nyilaskeresztes Párt Hungarista Mozgalom, literally "Arrow Cross Party-Hungarist Movement") was a Hungarist party led by Ferenc Szálasi, which led a government in Hungary known as the Government of National Unity from 15 October 1944 to 28 March 1945. During its short rule, ten to fifteen thousand civilians (many of whom were Jews) were murdered outright, and 80,000 people were deported from Hungary to various camps in Austria, mostly Gusen and Mauthausen.

Hungarian fascism predates both German and Italian fascism. Like German fascism it is heavily based on hatred of Jews and Bolsheviks. Its supporters crushed the new Hungarian soviet republic which was established in Hungary after WW1 in the aftermath of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.