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Of the defenders of the Przemyśl Fortress about 70% were killed in battle and most of the survivors, regardless of their nationality, were deported to the lands of the Russian Empire. A lot of them were residents of the Kingdom of Hungary. Many Hungarians also fell in the 1914-1915 battles for Galicia and were buried at various war cemeteries scattered all around the region. No wonder then that public discourse has long featured “heroic Hungarians in Galicia”, though this is only part of the story. Hungarian presence in Galicia was also marked by some shameful episodes. The conduct of Hungarian troops between 1915 and 1918 would be remembered by local people as brutal. In memoirs of that time the Honvéd are shown more like barbarian and destructive Huns, even though a few years before people had admired the Hungarian officers’ culture and their attractive uniforms.