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Well, this is one example of treating our battles of WWII (and kinda WWI, but noone heard about WWI battles, not counting a couple of autists). However last Thursday a new animation movie was released about a very important battle of our history, the battle of Pozsony/Pressburg (907), the first defensive battle Hungarians had to fought against foreign invaders in the Carpathian Basin. Here's the link to the full movie: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oiNmszXx_js It's in Hungarian, but maybe worth a watch. Or not because it isn't good. There is a lot to talk about here, and I just might do it in the next weeks. But for now I would mention two. First is the quality of the product as an animation. They decided to make it as a 3d one, which very much reminds me of the looks of some vidya (they built the thing upon the Unreal Engine), Total War for example, I think it was a bad choice. I don't mind outdated graphix of computer games, but here, it just looks cheap. They should have done this in the style of the Son of the White Mare: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oQpIt3WgDHg The second is what I had to mention it here in relation to the topic what our Aussie friend threw in, they literally built a myth with this, by adding a weird mix of random infos about the steppe people in general and conjectures about the Hungarians, Hungarian military, and events to the very little actual and unreliable data what remained to us. They got harsh criticism from many (partially politically motivated, not surprisingly since the creation of the movie was also partially politically motivated). Instead of this specific battle, I'd prefer something about the Hungarian prehistory in the view our place among the steppe people. They should have done that. While those times were extremely important in the formation of the Hungarian folk, the common people know terrifyingly little about it. Granted, the average person knows very little about history and Hungarian history in general. Lot to talk about the movie itself, about the institution which ordered, made, released this animation, about the battle, and about the research of the Hungarian prehistory, to make it clear what are the issues around the story they presented. Btw about the battle a book was published for the 1100th anniversary of the battle with the title: "Egy elfeledett diadal. A 907. évi pozsonyi csata" (= A forgotten triumph. The battle of Pozsony of 907AD.). I read a review about the book, which sadly I do not own, because seems to be very comprehensive publication. Ofc there are other books too.