WI - A Non-aligned post-1990 Hungary

How do you think Hungary would have turned out, if it became a Democratic country in 1990, and had the Soviet troops depart it in 1991, yet it never decided to join NATO in 1998, and join the EU in 2004?

What fate would you think the most likely has occured for this country if what was mentioned above took place? Would Hungary be a country where most people have jobs in Agriculture and Industry, manufacturing local products ranging from bacon to toothpaste, through lightbulb-sockets and microelectronics, even in disadvantaged parts of the country, like Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, or would it have turned out worse than OTL Hungary? Would this ATL Hungary be a proud country, where people eat local foods, brush their teeth with state-owned Amodent toothpaste, and have their streets illuminated with VBKM-streetlamps, or would it turn into something more sinister?
 
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I think there's a question that needs to be answered before we get to your set of questions: What does Hungary do instead of joining NATO and the EU? Or to put it another way, what kind of vision for the future is articulated in TTL that gets Hungary to pursue some kind of non-alignment? Despite the problems Eastern European countries had/have in joining the EU, nobody was able to articulate a viable non-EU future that captured the public imagination and nobody was able to resist the carrot that EU integration offered. Slovakia tried briefly but it didn't really get anywhere in OTL. It's really hard to see non-aligned Hungary lasting for very long unless the EU and NATO don't exist and it's even more difficult to see it's communist-era industries survive the end of the Cold War.

Now I always hated it when people shot down my ideas without offering some kind of alternative. A non-aligned Hungary is likely impossible but perhaps a different alignment is possible? This may not be plausible, but perhaps in the aftermath of the Cold War say a genuine religious revival sweeps the nations of the Warsaw Pact. Though they reject Communism, they also seize upon the anti-capitalist elements of certain Christian teachings and rapidly create a movement that dominates politics throughout Eastern Europe and rapidly achieves electoral success in multiple countries. These parties guide their respective countries away from the "wonton atheist materialists" of the EU and towards closer cooperation and integration with each other. These parties then achieve international validation as they lead their countries to intervene decisively in the collapse of Yugoslavia, preventing its collapse and integrating the former Yugoslav republics as separate entities in the "Budapest Pact" (for the sake of the OP). Initially, everyone's supportive of these parties. The EU sees the Budapest pact as an unexpected step towards integration but a step towards integration nonetheless. The US is happy because despite their anti-capitalist rhetoric the Budapest pact is a force for stability and is staunchly "Christian". Finally, even the Russians are happy as the Warsaw Pact is essentially still in place. Heck, perhaps in TTL the same revivalism grips the former USSR causing them to gravitate towards and in certain cases join the Budapest pact as well.

However, as the 21st century progresses and the Budapest Pact continues to be adamantly opposed to EU integration things begin to get more complicated and more hostility develops due to conflicting visions for the future of Europe. As political divides deepen over issues like democratic norms, minorities, womens' rights, and LGBTQ issues, tensions mount and a new Cold War begins to take shape leading many to see the end of the Cold War as not an end but now merely a brief thaw...

(It's on the edge of being ASB I know, so sue me :p )
 
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