What is the Hungarian name for "prodding us to fight among ourselves until one faction prevails?"
There's a scene in The Arrival where some important muckity-muck has the following exchange with Louise (Amy Adams):
Guy: We have to consider the idea that our visitors are prodding us to fight among ourselves until only one faction prevails.
Louise: There's no evidence of that.
Guy: Sure there is. Grab a history book. The British with India, the Germans with Rwanda. They even got a name for it in Hungary.
So, what do Hungarians call that strategy?
(This exchange begins at 1:07:48.)
Best Answer
The word you are looking for is szalámitaktika meaning Salami Tactics or Salami Slice Strategy.
The term was first coined by Mátyás Rákosi an orthodox communist leader in Hungary.
...it was the colloquial naming of the behaviour, political methods of the Hungarian Communist Party in order of their quick rise to power. In a wider sense, this tactic was used by other communist parties as well in the Soviet occupation zone to develop monarchism. In this fashion, the opposition is eliminated “slice by slice” until one realizes that it is gone in its entirety.
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