The razor-wire fence (pictured), which spans the entire distance of Hungary's border with Serbia, has become a defining symbol of Europe's growing migrant crisis.
'Brussels is failing to understand just how deeply Hungarians feel about this issue,' said Neil Barnett, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank in London, who lived in Hungary for more than a decade.
'For centuries the Magyars have felt themselves to be the unthanked guardians of European Christendom. However much arching of eyebrows this causes in Brussels, here is a question that threatens to tear Europe apart at the seams.'
Because, for Hungarians, the 'Iron Curtain' is a source of pride, not shame.
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