Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement

Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement
Hatvannégy Vármegye Ifjúsági Mozgalom
LeaderGyörgy Gyula Zagyva, Gábor Barcsa-Turner
Founded21 April 2001
IdeologyUltranationalism[1][2]
Hungarian irredentism[3][4]
Political positionFar-right[5][6]
Website
https://www.hvim.hu/

The Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement (Hungarian: Hatvannégy Vármegye Ifjúsági Mozgalom, HVIM) is a far-right[7] movement originating in Hungary and also present in Romania, Slovakia and Serbia, advocating the unification of all ethnic Hungarians that live outside of Hungary and the revision of the Treaty of Trianon from 1920, which defined the current borders of the Hungarian state. Until 2013 the leader of the 64 Counties Youth Movement was László Toroczkai.[8]

It is named in memory of Greater Hungary, which was divided into 64 counties,[9] although it is an anachronism, because the Kingdom of Hungary had only 63 counties, but the city of Fiume and its district as a corpus separatum was under Hungarian rule and it was meant as the 64th county by the founders for simplicity.[citation needed]

The Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement has engaged on violent assaults on civilians in Serbia.[citation needed]

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