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Additional thoughts.
The researchers in the Finno-Ugric "school" adopted the stance of scientific objectivity, claimed the sole representation of science for themselves, and declared that everyone who toys with the idea of Scythian and Hun kinship are doing it out of inferiority complex, or chauvinistic irredentism, and are at best romantic dreamers (as I noted before), but who are causing harm to Hungarian historiography (they published articles with titles: "Reality and mythical deformity" and such). The worst type attacks were made during the communism and the following decade ('90s) ofc.
Then they started to shit on previous scholars of the 19th century (and ofc on the "fascist" ones from the interwar era, no matter of their stance) who were considered prominent on their respective fields.
Medieval Hungarian primary sources also got unfair treatment - they all attest the Scythian-Hunnic ancestry - and were considered weak and bad sources, almost swept off from the table, and literally any other source was favoured as long as it was written by foreigners on foreign lands (joke is for a very long time all foreign sources also calls us Scythian, Hun, and Avar). We should take a look at the wildly different treatment of the saga's by northern historians. Those are treasured sources, even tho they are largely poetic inventions.