Nations living closer/next to Russia hate them much better (like Ukraine and Poland...) and I can understand that. As for Hungary, we have good relations with modern day Russia (we have all the oil imported from Russia). Of course not only Hungary depends on their oil export. Gazprom is growing larger every day providing a good opportunity to get Russia back to position. I think they are/will be very strong, but still not threat at all. But anyway, if you want to calculate a worst case scenario, you should count we Russia too (an all other countries rleated with oil) Besides, Hungary has about 14 tanks (T–72), apcs, and maybe 13 Gripens, 14 Mig-29 fighters, and some other smaller scout units (ok, we have over 50 Mig-21s ) I think in case of WW3, we could hold our borders for atleast an hour So no, we don't hate Mother Russia. USSR was something different, it was good for boosting up economy here after WW2, but destroyed pretty much everything we believed in before, it was rather a culture shock and systematic brainwashing (even tougher than western tv) Typical hungarian bad luck was, that in 1945 western forces (I think US) also approached from the south to drive the germans out from Budapest, but sadly the Prosperous Red Army arrived one day sooner Oh well, communism for 50 years for us, np. Vodka rules, Coke sucks.