GOD, HOMELAND, FAMILY

WINE, GRAIN, PEACE

By just about completing their painting over the Communist Red, the Smallholders make a poster with the Hungarian national colors of red, white, and green.

The Independent Smallholders were in the first postsocialist government coalition with the Hungarian Democratic Forum (HDF) and the Christian Democrats from 1990-94. Tensions developed between the HDF and the Smallholders following the HDF's signal that it would not pursue re-privatization of land. Smallholders supporters in some villages protested the HDF's policy and in several places peasants occupied land formerly owned by their families.